GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Pierre Bonnard, like his friend Edouard Vuillard, was a devoted uncle and made many images of his nephews, Charles and Jean Terrasse. The two boys are shown here reading by the light of an oil lamp. Jean, the elder of the two, is seated at right, leaning his cheek on his fist as he reads. The younger boy, Charles, appears to sound out the words from the pages of an illustrated book. Later in life, Charles recalled that the painting was made at the family's country house at Le Grand-Lemps, in the Dauphine region of France.
Excerpt from
Heather MacDonald, DMA Label copy, 2014.
NOTES
Entered current label into TMS.
General Description: Heather MacDonald, DMA Label copy (1985.R.4) for "Small Worlds: Edouard Vuillard and the Intimate Art of the Nabis," October 2014.
Removed TMS tag because rule exists.
Emailed BMac to complete Brettell 1995 citation in public notes, Richard R. Brettell, Impressionist Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1995) 129.
Note- the essay that currently apepars as public notes will now appear as the Catagloue Essay- Bonnard's "Interior: The Terrasse Children."
This is one of many examples where the TMS record has a research document attached (usually from Emily Vokt, 2001) but there is a more recent version of this research document in the object file. I added a note to the object file stating that all information from the most recent document has been entered into TMS.
FUN FACT source- Excerpt from- Heather MacDonald, "Pierre Bonnard [three illustration studies]," in Mind's Eye: Masterworks on Paper from David to Cézanne, eds. Olivier Meslay and William B. Jordan (Dallas Museum of Art; New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 2014), 178-179.
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Place of origin: Paris (France): TGN: 7008038
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chairs
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n.d.: Georges Renand, Paris [1]
Mid 1950’s-1985: Wendy (1916-2007) and Emery Reves (1904-1981), Villa La Pausa, Roquebrune, France
From 1985: Dallas Museum of Art, gift from the above
[1] According to research notes from Emily Vokt in the Collection Records Object File, Renand was a prominent art collector and powerful businessman. His family owned the Samaritaine department store in Paris. The bulk of the Renand collection was auctioned off in the mid-1980s.
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- In 1893, Bonnard published his first illustrated book, a children’s music primer written by his brother-in-law Claude Terrasse. Bonnard’s witty and inventive drawings for the project, created over nearly two years (72 are known) do not merely illustrate the text, but animate the ideas expressed in Terrasse’s simple explanations crafted for a child’s understanding.
- When Emery Reves first acquired the painting in the mid-1950s, he wrote to Charles Terrasse, who then controlled the Bonnard estate. Terrasse identified both figures and told Reves that it was painted on a summer weekend in 1899 in the family's country house in Le Grand-Lemps in the Dauphiné.
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General Description
Pierre Bonnard, like his friend Edouard Vuillard, was a devoted uncle and made many images of his nephews, Charles and Jean Terrasse. The two boys are shown here reading by the light of an oil lamp. Jean, the elder of the two, is seated at right, leaning his cheek on his fist as he reads. The younger boy, Charles, appears to sound out the words from the pages of an illustrated book. Later in life, Charles recalled that the painting was made at the family's country house at Le Grand-Lemps, in the Dauphine region of France.
Excerpt from
Heather MacDonald, DMA Label copy, 2014.
Fun Facts
- In 1893, Bonnard published his first illustrated book, a children’s music primer written by his brother-in-law Claude Terrasse. Bonnard’s witty and inventive drawings for the project, created over nearly two years (72 are known) do not merely illustrate the text, but animate the ideas expressed in Terrasse’s simple explanations crafted for a child’s understanding.
- When Emery Reves first acquired the painting in the mid-1950s, he wrote to Charles Terrasse, who then controlled the Bonnard estate. Terrasse identified both figures and told Reves that it was painted on a summer weekend in 1899 in the family's country house in Le Grand-Lemps in the Dauphiné.
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Notes
Entered current label into TMS.
General Description: Heather MacDonald, DMA Label copy (1985.R.4) for "Small Worlds: Edouard Vuillard and the Intimate Art of the Nabis," October 2014.
Removed TMS tag because rule exists.
Emailed BMac to complete Brettell 1995 citation in public notes, Richard R. Brettell, Impressionist Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection, (Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 1995) 129.
Note- the essay that currently apepars as public notes will now appear as the Catagloue Essay- Bonnard's "Interior: The Terrasse Children."
This is one of many examples where the TMS record has a research document attached (usually from Emily Vokt, 2001) but there is a more recent version of this research document in the object file. I added a note to the object file stating that all information from the most recent document has been entered into TMS.
FUN FACT source- Excerpt from- Heather MacDonald, "Pierre Bonnard [three illustration studies]," in Mind's Eye: Masterworks on Paper from David to Cézanne, eds. Olivier Meslay and William B. Jordan (Dallas Museum of Art; New Haven, NJ: Yale University Press, 2014), 178-179.
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Place of origin: Paris (France): TGN: 7008038
Process/materials
paper
board
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
uncle
nephew
interior space
reading
boys
oil lamps
table
sitting
book
illustrations
viewpoint
education
summer
flowers
flower vases
chairs
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
n.d.: Georges Renand, Paris [1]
Mid 1950’s-1985: Wendy (1916-2007) and Emery Reves (1904-1981), Villa La Pausa, Roquebrune, France
From 1985: Dallas Museum of Art, gift from the above
[1] According to research notes from Emily Vokt in the Collection Records Object File, Renand was a prominent art collector and powerful businessman. His family owned the Samaritaine department store in Paris. The bulk of the Renand collection was auctioned off in the mid-1980s.
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