About this artwork
In this print, Pierre Bonnard incorporated the horizontal format, vertically divided pictorial space, and raised picture plane that are commonly found in prints by Japanese artists such as Katsushika Hokusai. In an 1882 essay published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, French critic Théodore Duret wrote that Japanese landscape style was “seen from high above, with a perspective which lifts distant planes up to the top of the picture and makes people and objects stand out not against the background of sky, but against the background of landscape itself.”
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Pierre Bonnard
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Title
- Boulevard, from Some Aspects of Paris Life
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1896
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Medium
- Lithograph in gray-green, charcoal gray, yellow and orange, with handcoloring in black and red crayon, on ivory China paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 17.5 × 43 cm (6 15/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 40 × 53 cm (15 3/4 × 20 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
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Reference Number
- 1952.1115
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris