1899
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Street Scene from Above is a 1899 by Pierre Bonnard, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
Bonnard painted a Paris street from above in 1899. Bright roofs and tiny figures fill the scene. A woman in white walks a dog below. He worked from his Montmartre studio window. Instead of famous sights, he showed everyday life—shoppers, vendors, park visitors. The park here is the Bois de Boulogne. This kind of quiet city scene feels like a snapshot. Check out Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947) next.
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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