1899
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Avenue du Bois de Boulogne is a 1899 by Pierre Bonnard, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a tree-lined Paris street in the Bois de Boulogne park. People walk and ride in open carriages along the broad avenue. Bonnard used bright, flat colors like green and yellow for the leaves and sky. He focused on everyday life, not famous landmarks. The scene feels alive with small, scattered figures doing normal things. Next time you’re at the Cleveland Museum of Art, look for this lithograph in their print collection.
This suite of color lithographs collected Pierre Bonnard’s observations of city life, ranging from animated street scenes to distant observations glimpsed from the artist’s Montmartre studio window. Rather than memorializing the famous monuments of Paris, Bonnard preferred to depict small neighborhood scenes populated by urbanites shopping and strolling and by vendors selling their wares. The setting for one of the prints is the second-largest public park in Paris, the Bois de Boulogne, which was a popular place for families to relax, stroll, and enjoy carriage rides around the lakes. Two…
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Pierre Bonnard was a French painter, illustrator and printmaker, known especially for the stylized decorative qualities of his paintings and his bold use of color.
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