Suite of drawings for the volume Histoire du Poisson Scie et du Poisson Marteau by Léopold Chauveau

c. 1922

Pierre Bonnard

Artist, French, 1867 - 1947

French 19th Century

Artist

Léopold Chauveau

Author, French, 1870 - 1940

Medium

Suite of 39 drawings, 38 are preparatory drawings by Bonnard in pen and brush and black ink on smooth wove paper, 1 (unpublished) is in pen and brown ink on rough wove paper
Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Dimensions

sheet: 35.8 × 28.4 cm (14 1/8 × 11 3/16 in.)
book: 37.5 × 31.5 × 4 cm (14 3/4 × 12 3/8 × 1 9/16 in.)
Accession

2014.112.3.1-39
Catalogue Raisonné

Terrasse 1988, no. 40

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; bequest of Mrs. Paul Mellon to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1988

Terrasse, Antoine. Bonnard Illustrateur: Catalogue raisonné. Paris, 1988, no. 40.

Inscriptions

initialed by artist in graphite on drawings .1-.38: PB; in graphite lower left by different hand on drawing .39: (not deciphered)