The Street at Night in the Rain

1897/1898 (published 1899)

Pierre Bonnard, Ambroise Vollard (publisher)

Associated Names
Pierre Bonnard

Artist, French, 1867 - 1947

Ambroise Vollard

Publisher, French, 1866 - 1939

This is a painting of a dimly-lit street scene. The image shows a row of carriages and buildings in the background, with warm illuminated windows. The foreground features dark areas suggesting trees and an undefined figure or object. The colors are muted earth tones with yellow highlights. The composition captures the ambiance of urban nightlife. This is in the style of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
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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 Number

    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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