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Essay89Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets, 1872 (oil on canvas), Manet,Édouard (1832-83). Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France. The Bridgeman ArtLibrary.records one of his many escapes in Lebanon from theheavy Egyptian summer heat. He depicts the spectacularmountainous view from Dhour El-Shoueir in thisperfectly balanced composition, combining his ownstyle with the theories of Italian and Northern EuropeanRenaissance works fused with early 20th century arttrends. Dhour El-Shoueir is a picturesque mountaintown, situated at an altitude of 1250 metres, just nextMahmoud Saïd, Ma Sœur (Zeinab Saïd), oil on board, 45x30cm., 1920.May Zeid & Adel Youssry Khedr Collection, Cairo.to the main Beirut-Damascus route and overlookingthe Lebanese capital as well as the Mediterranean Sea. Itwas, and still is, one of the most popular summer resortsof the Governorate Mount Lebanon, despite it havingbeen on the front line during the Civil War. The snapshotof the massive grey-white mountain in the background,the summit of which has been cut off by the canvasedges, gives it an even more dominant position in the