Elle était plus belle que les rêves
1892/1899
Medium
color lithograph on lightweight cream (handmade?) wove paper
Dimensions
image: 40.5 × 29.3 cm (15 15/16 × 11 9/16 in.) sheet: 53 × 40.3 cm (20 7/8 × 15 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3412
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...