The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
The Costermonger
1899
(French, 1867–1947)
Sheet: 40.7 x 53.4 cm (16 x 21 in.); Image: 30.4 x 34 cm (11 15/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1948.156.8
Catalogue raisonné: Bouvet 65
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
The costermonger seen here sold fruits and vegetables from a cart on Paris's streets.Description
This suite of color lithographs collected Pierre Bonnard’s observations of city life, ranging from animated street scenes to distant observations glimpsed from the artist’s Montmartre studio window. Rather than memorializing the famous monuments of Paris, Bonnard preferred to depict small neighborhood scenes populated by urbanites shopping and strolling and by vendors selling their wares. The setting for one of the prints is the second-largest public park in Paris, the Bois de Boulogne, which was a popular place for families to relax, stroll, and enjoy carriage rides around the lakes. Two prints are nocturnal scenes in which gaslight emanating from shop windows is reflected on the wet streets, creating passages of bright yellow in the otherwise dark compositions. Bonnard’s favorite subjects, such as the Parisienne—a young, fashionable, modern woman—as well as children and dogs, appear repeatedly throughout the prints in the suite.- Kleeman Galleries
- 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. 232; Reproduced: P. 255, no. 172
- 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).Printing in Color. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985).
- {{cite web|title=The Costermonger|url=false|author=Pierre Bonnard, Published by Ambroise Vollard; Printed by Auguste Clot|year=1899|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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