Family Scene
Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947)
publisher L'Estampe Originale
1893
- Medium
- color lithograph on beige wove paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- Image: 28.8 x 19.8 cm (11 5/16 x 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 56.5 x 43.5 cm (22 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- 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
Pierre Bonnard favored domestic scenes, often focusing on the intimacy of family life. This early lithograph is one of several that he made depicting his sister Andrée and her infant son Jean, born the year before. Bonnard included himself in the image at lower right, gazing at his nephew. The awkward cropping of the figures of the artist and his sister, along with the flat planes of color throughout the image, suggest the influence of Japanese woodblock prints on Bonnard during this period.
