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Woman with an Umbrella

Woman with an Umbrella

1894
(French, 1867–1947)
Sheet: 32.1 x 25.1 cm (12 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.); Image: 22 x 12.7 cm (8 11/16 x 5 in.)
Catalogue raisonné: Bouvet 33
Location: not on view

Description

Maria Boursin—known as Marthe—became Bonnard’s romantic companion when they met in 1893 and eventually his wife in 1925. She was the model for this lithograph depicting a woman teetering up a stairway. The composition is devoid of background details; only the cobblestones and umbrella suggest the setting of a city street.
  • Private Collection, Switzerland
  • 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. 228; Reproduced: P. 243, no. 155
  • 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=Woman with an Umbrella|url=false|author=Pierre Bonnard, Published by L'Estampeoriginale in the Album de la Revue blanche, 1895|year=1894|access-date=20 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1992.338