Nude Against the Light or Backlit Nude (French: Nu à contre-jour) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Post-Impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard. Created in 1908, it is now in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels.[1]

Nude against the Light
Artist	Pierre Bonnard
Year	1908
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	124.5 cm × 109.2 cm (49.0 in × 43.0 in)
Location	Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

The work depicts the artist's partner and frequent model Marthe de Mėrigny applying eau de Cologne after a bath in a tub. She is nude and standing silhouetted against the light from the windows which fills the room with bright warm shadowless light and colour. The bather is reflected in a mirror, a characteristic feature of Bonnard's paintings.

See also

• 100 Great Paintings

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