Portrait of deceased Elisa Masrieras

Portrait of the late Elisa Masriera is a painting by Francesc Masriera i Manovens that is preserved and is part of the permanent collection of the Museu de l'Empordà. It is a portrait of the painter's sister. Elisa Masriera. it is part of the tradition of realistic portrait of the deceased, common throughout the nineteenth century, but with a symbolist atmosphere promoted by the butterfly and the flying insects that appear on the bottom of the canvas and that can represent the transcendence of the afterlife, contrasted with the decline of human life It is relevant the play of transparencies of the gauzes that surround the body of the woman and the detail. description of the flowers.