Study for "Gamme majeure" (Major Scale)

1891/1893

Pierre Bonnard

Associated Names
Pierre Bonnard

Artist, French, 1867 - 1947

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brush and pen and black ink with green watercolor over graphite

  • Credit Line

    Purchased for the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 20.6 x 28.3 cm (8 1/8 x 11 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.83.1

  • Volume Title

    Petit Solfège illustré (Little Illustrated Solfeggio)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Pieter Dietsch, New York; by descent; (Artemis Fine Arts, London); Ira and Virginia Jackson, Houston; (Hartle Properties, Inc., Houston); purchased by NGA in 2014

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2000

  • Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 72, 169, no. 110 (color).

Inscriptions

upper left in pen and black ink: 8e; upper right in pen and black ink: 8; across top in pen and black ink: CHAPITRE II _ / ECHELLE - GAMME - TONS - DEMI-TONS; center in pen and black ink: Qu'est-ce que la gamme / C'est une portion ... [text continues for 13 lines]; lower right in graphite: 48

Wikidata ID

Q64619567

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