Nursemaids’ Promenade, Frieze of Carriages
1895
Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947)
Prints
Nursemaids’ Promenade, Frieze of Carriages , 1895. Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947), Molines, Galeries Lafayette. Color lithograph; sheet: 137.4 x 47.3 cm (54 1/8 x 18 5/8 in.); image: 137.4 x 47.3 cm (54 1/8 x 18 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Nancy and Joseph P. Keithley by exchange 2008.31.a This charming scene of a nanny and her three charges extends across four panels meant to be mounted as a folding screen. Pierre Bonnard emulated the solidly colored flat forms of Japanese color woodcut prints, which he collected. He featured the screen in his first solo exhibition at Paris's prestigious Galeries Durand-Ruel in 1896. Although this screen was issued in an edition of 110, only about 20 copies survive today.
- Maker/Artist
- Bonnard, Pierre
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- color lithograph
- Medium
- color, lithograph
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 137.4 x 47.3 cm (54 1/8 x 18 5/8 in.); Image: 137.4 x 47.3 cm (54 1/8 x 18 5/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: The third panel signed with the artist's monogram in the stone
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 2008.31.a
- Credit Line
- Gift of Nancy and Joseph P. Keithley by exchange
- Exhibitions
- Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900, Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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