[1] This canvas, in an almost square format, is a portrait of a young girl named Jeanne-Marie, who also would pose for Julie Manet, the artist's daughter.

The artist decided to continue the work despite the absence of a model, drawing inspiration from her daughter, which explains the slightly fixed appearance of the young girl's face.

The top of her garment, mixing shades of blue, white, green and gray, recalls the color of the bench and the flowers to the girl's right.

This impression of unease is contrasted, however, with a soft, spring-like light, the harmonious shades and tones and the smile sketched on the young girl's lips.

Her daughter, Julie Manet, and her husband Ernest Rouart, a watercolor painter, both heirs to the artist's work, lend Young Girl in a Park to the “Libre Esthétique” exhibition in Brussels, Belgium, from February 25 to March 29, 1904, a retrospective on impressionist painting, where the critics gave Berthe Morisot her rightful place, alongside the greatest artists of the late 19th century.

[2] The work has since been kept in the Salon Rouge of the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, a room that brings together 19th and early 20th century art in France.