Birth Announcement for Marthe Mellerio
Maurice Denis
1896
Medium
lithograph printed in gray and brown on wove paper [proof, missing blue stone]
Dimensions
sheet: 12.6 × 18.9 cm (4 15/16 × 7 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Nico and Bowie Cord
Accession Number
2019.179.1
About the Artist
Maurice Denis · 1870–1943
Maurice Denis (1870–1943) was a French painter, writer, and art theorist who became a founding member and principal theorist of the Nabis, a group of Post-Impressionist artists working in Paris in the 1890s. Born in Granville, Normandy, he studied at the Académie Julian, where he met Paul Sérusier, Pierre Bonnard, and Édouard Vuillard, the future core of the Nabi group. Denis is perhaps best reme...