Family Scene
1893
Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947)
Prints
Family Scene, 1893. Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947). Color lithograph on beige wove paper; image: 28.8 x 19.8 cm (11 5/16 x 7 13/16 in.); sheet: 56.5 x 43.5 cm (22 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.150 Pierre Bonnard favored domestic scenes, often focusing on the intimacy of family life. This early lithograph is one of several that he made depicting his sister Andrée and her infant son Jean, born the year before. Bonnard included himself in the image at lower right, gazing at his nephew. The awkward cropping of the figures of the artist and his sister, along with the flat planes of color throughout the image, suggest the influence of Japanese woodblock prints on Bonnard during this period. The embossed mark below the lower left corner of this print indicates that it was included in L'Estampe Originale, a monthly luxury publication during the 1890s that featured original prints.
- Maker/Artist
- Bonnard, Pierre
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- color lithograph on beige wove paper
- Medium
- color, lithograph, beige, wove, paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 28.8 x 19.8 cm (11 5/16 x 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 56.5 x 43.5 cm (22 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed and inscribed, lower right, in graphite: no. 22 / P. Bonnard Inscription: at lower left: blind stamp of L’Estampe Originale Inscription: in pencil on recto, lower right: "No. 6 (?)/P. Bonnard (signed)"
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 2020.150
- Credit Line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Exhibitions
- 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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