Dining Room at Vernonnet by Bonnard in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2008

The Dining Room, Vernonnet
1916


Object Details

Title: The Dining Room, Vernonnet

Artist: Pierre Bonnard (French, Fontenay-aux-Roses 1867–1947 Le Cannet)

Date: 1916

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 37 1/2 × 57 1/4 in. (95.3 × 145.4 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998

Accession Number: 1999.363.6


The rich colors and iridescent surfaces of Bonnard's interior contrast with the plain, two-story house that the artist purchased in 1912, Ma Roulotte (My Gypsy Caravan). Because of the poor health of his companion, Marthe, they spent increasing amounts of time there, in the valley of the Seine.


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