Young Woman with Ewers (Marthe presentant les burettes ou La jeune fille a l'aiguier
Maurice Denis
1895
Medium
lithograph in green
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1952.8.227
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...