Family Scene
Pierre Bonnard
(French, 1867–1947)
Family Scene, 1892
Color lithograph
Richard Lee Ripin Fund, 2005.5
Pierre Bonnard was a master of color lithography. Here the abstraction, exaggeration, and simplifi-cation typical of advertising posters are used to animate a quaint family scene in which a much doted upon baby virtually bounces into the center of the frame.