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Pierre Bonnard’s art was inseparable from his complicated marriage to Marthe de Méligny (here called Marie-Brossin). Far from the idyllic image of a painter’s serene muse, she was reportedly difficult, jealous, and possessive—yet Bonnard remained fiercely devoted to her throughout his life. His paintings became meditations on intimacy, memory, and the hidden rhythms of domestic life. Obsessed with the sensual details of ordinary moments, he turned the home—baths, bedrooms, flickers of sunlight—into a landscape of remembrance and desire. Even as Marthe aged, Bonnard continued to paint her as eternally young—his “perpetual Susanna,” bathing again and again, glimpsed through curtains and reflections. In these images, he dissolved her body into luminous color, reclaiming her through art, not flesh—forever the lover watching from a quiet distance.