Pierre Bonnard and L'Estampe originale
Woman with Umbrella (Femme au parapluie)
Published 1895
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- Artist: Pierre Bonnard
- Publisher: L’Estampe originale
Woman with Umbrella (Femme au parapluie)
Published 1895
Physical Qualities
Color crayon and brush and tusche lithograph, Sheet: 322 x 249 mm. (12 11/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Frederick Lawrence Jones, Fredericksburg, Virginia
Object Number
1992.280
In the early 1890s, Bonnard began to explore a new subject—the Parisienne. Images of thin, fragile, but elegant female figures began to appear in his paintings and prints. Here a woman with a parasol, dressed in a very stylish black dress and elaborate hat, struggles slightly for balance as she ascends a set of stairs into an unknown space. The model has been identified as Marthe de Meligny, whom Bonnard met in 1893 and with whom he spent most of his life.
Purchased from Roten Gallery, Baltimore.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Degas and the Little Dancer in Context," 4 October - 3 January 1999.
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Bonnard & Vuillard," 23 April - 19 October 2008.
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Bonnard & Vuillard," 23 April - 19 October 2008.
Signed: 2
Inscribed: upper left in stone: "PB"; lower right in graphite: "P Bonnard"
