Cleveland Museum of Art

Nursemaids’ Promenade, Frieze of Carriages

Pierre Bonnard

Date

1895

Medium

color lithographs on wove paper, screen with four panels

Culture

France, 19th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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

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