Child with Lamp

Prints and Drawings

1897

Pierre Bonnard
French, 1867-1947

Bonnard was sometimes called the Nabi Japonard, or Japanese Nabi, because he used the asymmetrical composition,elevated viewpoint, and bold colors of japanese prints in his own work. Like Vuillard, Bonnard used children and his own family as favorite models for his early interiors. Attention here centers on the lamp, an example of Bonnard’s symbolist interest in the secret life of ordinary objects. As in Japanese composition, Bonnard constructs the space from several points of view, so that we seem to enter the picture from the position of the object.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pierre Bonnard
Title: Child with Lamp
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1897
Medium: Lithograph printed in pink, green, brick red, blue, and orange on light gray chine
Dimensions: Image: 32 × 44.5 cm (12 5/8 × 17 9/16 in.); Sheet: 41 × 57.2 cm (16 3/16 × 22 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Frank B. Hubachek
Reference Number: 1946.6
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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