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Nursemaids’ Promenade, Frieze of Carriages

Nursemaids’ Promenade, Frieze of Carriages

1895
(French, 1867–1947)
France, 19th century
color lithograph
Sheet: 137 x 48.4 cm (53 15/16 x 19 1/16 in.); Image: 137 x 48.4 cm (53 15/16 x 19 1/16 in.)
Gift of Nancy and Joseph P. Keithley by exchange 2008.31.d
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Although this screen was issued in an edition of 110, only about 20 copies survive today.

Description

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.
  • Edmond-Honoré Sagot, Paris (1857-1917) (not stamped, Lugt 2253-54); Maurice Le Garrec, Paris (Sagot’s son-in-law, Lugt 1766a); by descent; [C. G. Boerner, New York]; Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH
  • Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “The Nabi City.” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 222-261. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021. Mentioned: P. 224-225; Reproduced: P. 241, no. 153
    Basch, Sophie. Le Japonisme, Un Art Français. Œuvres En Sociétés. Dijon: Les Presses du réel, 2022. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 453-454, fig. 227
  • Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
    Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (July 1-September 19, 2021); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (co-organizer) (October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022).
    Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).
  • {{cite web|title=Nursemaids’ Promenade, Frieze of Carriages|url=false|author=Pierre Bonnard|year=1895|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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