La Petite qui tousse (The Girl Who Coughs)
1890/1891
Medium
brush and black ink with watercolor
Dimensions
overall: 27.8 x 36.5 cm (10 15/16 x 14 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection
Accession Number
2001.136.9
Art Historical Context
**La Petite qui tousse (The Who Coughs)** Pierre Bonnard, 1890/1891 Brush and black ink with watercolor, 27.8 x 36.5 cm Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection, Gallery of Art Created when Pierre Bonnard was in his early twenties, *La Petite qui tousse captures the tender vulnerability of childhood in late 19th-century France. Bonnard, a founding member of the avant-garde Nabi group alongside Maurice Denis and others, was experimenting with intimate, everyday subjects influenced by Japanese prints and Symbolist ideals. This drawing likely depicts a young girl mid-cough, evoking the era's ...
About the Artist
Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) was a French painter and printmaker who became a leading figure in the Post-Impressionist movement and a founding member of Les Nabis. Born on October 3, 1867, in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, Bonnard initially studied law at his father's insistence, graduating and briefly practicing as a barrister in 1888. However, his true passion lay in art, and he had simultaneously at...