Street Corner Seen from Above (Coin de rue vue d'en haut), from the series Some Scenes of Parisian Life (Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris)
Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947)
Details
Title
Street Corner Seen from Above (Coin de rue vue d'en haut), from the series Some Scenes of Parisian Life (Quelques aspects de la vie de Paris)
Artist/Maker
Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947)
Date
1896–1897, published 1899
Medium
Lithograph in four colors on paper
Dimensions
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Credit
Purchase with funds from the Lawrence and Alfred Fox Foundation for the Ralph K. Uhry Collection
Accession #
57.40
Location
Currently not on view
In "Street Corner Seen from Above" (Coin de rue vue d'en haut), Pierre Bonnard depicts a scene of everyday Parisian life from an elevated viewpoint: the artist’s own window. The artist (and viewer) is removed from the bustle of the street below and is stationary, in comparison to the movement of the figures below. The printed composition resembles that of a painting Bonnard made around the same time, now at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. (acc. no. 0170).
