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Family Scene

Family Scene

1893
(French, 1867–1947)
France, 19th century
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.)
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.150
Catalogue raisonné: Bouvet 4
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

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.

Description

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.
  • ?-2005
    (Mark Rosen Fine Art, New York, NY, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH)
    2005-2020
    Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Shaker Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    2020
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Bouvet, Francis. Bonnard: The Complete Graphic Work. New York: Rizzoli, 1981. Mentioned: no. 4.
    Chapin, Mary Weaver. “Family Life.’” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 100-137. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021. Mentioned: P. 105; Reproduced: P. 133, no. 77
    Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “Curating Private Lives: Two curators thousands of miles apart collaborate on a show that depicts everyday life in Paris at the turn of the 19th century.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 2 (Spring 2021): 18-21. Reproduced: P. 21
  • 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).
  • {{cite web|title=Family Scene|url=false|author=Pierre Bonnard, L'Estampe Originale|year=1893|access-date=26 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.150