Title:J’aime Marie (I love Marie), page from Florilège des Amours de Ronsard (Anthology of the Sonnets of Ronsard)
Artist:Henri Matisse
Pierre de Ronsard
Date:1948
Credit Line:Gift of Bruce B. Dayton
Image Copyright:© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Number:B.75.2e
Artist:Henri Matisse
Pierre de Ronsard
Date:1948
Credit Line:Gift of Bruce B. Dayton
Image Copyright:© Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Number:B.75.2e
As his confidence with book illustration increased, Matisse experimented with new design concepts, often detouring from the text to create his own full-page drawings. Here, he uses a bouquet of flowers and a chorus of birds to pay homage to Marie, a woman often addressed in Ronsard's love poems.