The Street at Night in the Rain

1897/1898 (published 1899)

Pierre Bonnard

Artist, French, 1867 - 1947

Ambroise Vollard

Publisher, French, 1866 - 1939

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in beige, brown, greenish-gray, blue and yellow on lightweight, cream wove (handmade?) paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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

    1943.3.2079

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bouvet 1981, no. 68


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

  • Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1945.

  • U.S. Department of State, Blair Lee House, Washington, 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

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

Q64961070


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