Curatorial Narrative Flix Bracquemond’s Assiette (reine-marguerite) exists within the narrow window of time between 1866 and 1878, when modern artistic movements were beginning to take hold in Europe. The artist’s adoption of a linear brushwork style, reminiscent of the early Impressionists, imbues the work with a sense of fluidity and spontaneity that would become characteristic of later Modern art. However, Bracquemond’s use of black and white palette grounds the piece firmly within the conventions of fine art at the time, establishing a deliberate tension between representation and abstraction.As we scale up this etching to 44×50, its compositional structure reveals a spatial rhythm that oscillates between intimacy and expansiveness. The botanical subject, initially contained within a neat border, begins to unfold across the larger format like an unfolding manuscript page. The black lines of Bracquemond’s drawing take on a new we