Woman with an Umbrella (1894): Art, History and Details

Woman with an Umbrella (1894) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947); Published by L'Estampeoriginale in the Album de la Revue blanche, 1895.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Maria Boursin—known as Marthe—became Bonnard’s romantic companion when they met in 1893 and eventually his wife in 1925. She was the model for this lithograph depicting a woman teetering up a stairway. The composition is devoid of background details; only the cobblestones and umbrella suggest the setting of a city street.

Object facts

• Title: Woman with an Umbrella
• Date: 1894
• Creator attribution: Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947); Published by L'Estampeoriginale in the Album de la Revue blanche, 1895
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color lithograph
• Dimensions: Sheet: 32.1 x 25.1 cm (12 5/8 x 9 7/8 in.); Image: 22 x 12.7 cm (8 11/16 x 5 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1992.338

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79.
• Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “The Nabi City.” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 222-261. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.

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