The Square at Night (Place le soir)
Pierre Bonnard
c. 1897 (published 1899)
Medium
color lithograph
Dimensions
image: 27.6 × 38.6 cm (10 7/8 × 15 3/16 in.) sheet: 40.5 × 52.9 cm (15 15/16 × 20 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection
Accession Number
2000.180.46
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...