Children Leaving School
c. 1895
Pierre Bonnard
Artist, French, 1867 - 1947
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on cardboard
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Credit Line
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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 Number
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, cat. 3, repro.
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.
2022
Serrano, Véronique, editor._ Enfances rêvées : Bonnard, les Nabis et l'enfance; Dreamed childhood : Bonnard, the Nabis and childhood_. Exh. cat. Musée Bonnard, Le Cannet, 2022: 74, cat. 3.
Inscriptions
lower right: Bonnard
Wikidata ID
Q64619559