The Bridge (Le Pont)
1897/1898 (published 1899)
Artist, French, 1867 - 1947
Publisher, French, 1866 - 1939
Pierre Bonnard, Ambroise Vollard (publisher)
Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph in two browns, beige and yellow on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 25 × 41 cm (9 13/16 × 16 1/8 in.)
sheet: 40.5 × 53 cm (15 15/16 × 20 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.2080
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Catalogue Raisonné
Bouvet 1981, no. 66
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1932d and R in semicircle [not in Lugt]); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1945
Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1945.
1948
Paris, The Favorable Climate, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 - 1949.
1950
Vollard, Connoisseur: Modern French Prints, an Exhibition from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1950 - 1951.
1953
Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1953.
1954
Lithographs by Bonnard, Vuillard, and Maurice Denis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1954.
1955
Modern French Colored Lithographs from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, 1955.
1964
The Turn of the Century, Kresge Art Center at Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1964.
1970
Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1970.
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
bottom right, by later hand, in graphite : B5191; verso, by later hand, in graphite: Le pont / Johnson no. 9
Markings
verso, stamped in black ink: National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection (Lugt 1932d); stamped in black ink: Rosenwald stamp, R in semicircle (not in Lugt)
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64961071