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Woman with an Umbrella
Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947)
published by Published by L'Estampeoriginale in the Album de la Revue blanche, 1895
1894
- Medium
- color lithograph
- Classification
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
