Children Leaving School

c. 1895

Pierre Bonnard

Artist, French, 1867 - 1947

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on cardboard

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 28.9 x 44 cm (11 3/8 x 17 5/16 in.)
    framed: 50.4 x 66 x 6.3 cm (19 13/16 x 26 x 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1970.17.5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The artist; (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris), 1912. Capt. Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris, by 1947;[1] sold 15 August 1955 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; [2] bequest 1970 to NGA.
[1] Lent by Molyneux to a 1947 exhibition at the Orangerie.
[2] Purchase from Molyneux according to the Ailsa Mellon Bruce notebook now in NGA Gallery Archives (copy NGA curatorial records).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1946

  • XXXIV peintures de Pierre Bonnard, Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1946, no. 1.

1947

  • Bonnard, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1947, no. 9

1952

  • French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1952, unnumbered checklist.

1956

  • Pictures Collected by Yale Alumni, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1956, no. 131, repro.

1961

  • French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Mrs. Mellon Bruce, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, no. 2, repro

1964

  • Bonnard and his Environment, Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago; and Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, 1964-1965, no. 4, repro.

1966

  • French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 156, repro.

2017

  • Hokusai and Japonisme, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2017-2018.

2022

  • Enfances rêvées - Bonnard, les Nabis et l'enfance, Musée Bonnard, Le Cannet, 2022, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 34, repro.

1976

  • Perucchi-Petri, Ursula. Die Nabis und Japan. Munich, 1976: 76 and fig. 40.

1978

  • King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 95, pl. 58.

  • Small French Paintings from the Bequest of Ailsa Mellon Bruce. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978: 88, repro. (continuing exhibition beginning in 1978).

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 578, no. 887, color repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 52, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: Bonnard

Wikidata ID

Q64619559

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