Marthe and Marta Lebasque — Henri Lebasque | Zolota Ptakha

Lebasque painted his wife Marthe and their daughter Marta throughout his life; what looks at first like a simple double portrait is in fact a piece of family history committed to canvas. The image sits in the warm, intimate register that his contemporaries — Bonnard especially — also chose for domestic subjects, treating familiar faces with the same care they would give a public commission. Carried as a postcard, it makes a quietly personal gift, at home in an art postcard collection built around portraiture and family.