La vie de sainte Monique

Primary TitleUntitled

Artist Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867 - 1947)

Date1930

MediumEtching

DimensionsImage: 11 5/8 × 8 5/8 inches (29.53 × 21.91 cm)

Credit LineGift of Jack Freborg

Object numberF87-27/1

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DescriptionA girl jumps rope in the center of the scene. Her back is to us and her hair blows in the wind. Two figures in grecian robes stand before a rectangular box; another figure leans forward on it. Behind them, seven cyprus trees cross the middle background from left to right. More, smaller figures are in the right background. The suggestion of hills are in the upper background, while part of a column and pediment are in the lower right corner.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

[None known at this time.]

Provenance

Jack Freborg (1931–1997), Atchison, KS, by December 18, 1987;

Given by Jack Freborg to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1987.

Published References

Ambroise Vollard, La vie de Sainte Monique (Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1930).

Francis Bouvet, Bonnard: The Complete Graphic Work (London: Thames and Hudson, 1981), no. 111, pp. 258, 279.

Antoine Terrasse, Pierre Bonnard Illustrator: A Catalogue Raisonné (New York: Biro, 1988), no. 64.

Una E. Johnson, Ambroise Vollard, Editeur, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977), no. 170.

George L. McKenna, The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Prints 1460–1995 (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in association with The University of Washington Press, 1996), 209–91, as illustrations from La vie de sainte Monique.

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