Such ghostly presences are not uncommon in Bonnard's compositions, but here the figure may have added import. Bonnard worked on the painting throughout World War Two, and in 1942 de Méligny died. Just as the window is a threshold between inside and out, in The Studio it marks a liminal space, where the spirits of the past accompany the living in the luminous colours of nature. Such symbolism continues to inform contemporary images of the window,
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