The Street at Night in the Rain
1897/1898 (published 1899)
Pierre Bonnard
Artist, French, 1867 - 1947
Publisher, French, 1866 - 1939
Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph in beige, brown, greenish-gray, blue and yellow on lightweight, cream wove (handmade?) paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 25.5 × 35 cm (10 1/16 × 13 3/4 in.)
sheet: 40.6 × 52.7 cm (16 × 20 3/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.2079
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bouvet 1981, no. 68
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Series Title
Quelques Aspects de la Vie de Paris [1943.3.2078-2090]
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1932d and R in semicircle [not in Lugt]); gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1945
U.S. Department of State, Blair Lee House, Washington, 1945.
Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1945.
1948
Paris, The Favorable Climate, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 - 1949.
1964
The Turn of the Century, Kresge Art Center at Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1964, no. 15.
1965
Modern French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965.
1971
An Impressionist View on Paper - from the Lessing Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C, Art Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, 1971, no. 2.
1977
Prints of Paris: The 1890s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977.
1988
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.
1995
Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as The Street at Night in the Rain.
Bibliography
1952
Roger-Marx, Claude. Bonnard lithographe. Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1952.
1981
Bouvet, Francis. Bonnard: The Complete Graphic Work. New York: Rizzoli, 1981.
Inscriptions
lower right, in graphite: No [68?] PBonnard; bottom right, in graphite: B5190; verso, lower center, in graphite: J-14-11 Rue e soir sous la pluie
Wikidata ID
Q64961070