Original etching on cream laid paper. Signed by the artist "Bonnard" in the plate, lower middle. In very good condition.

Platemark size: 10 1/4" x 7 7/8"; Sheet size: 12 11/16" x 9 13/16"
Catalogue reference: Bouvet 84

Pierre Bonnard (3 October 1867 – 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, a founding member of Les Nabis, a group of young artists committed to creating work of symbolic and spiritual nature. Other Nabis include Édouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis. In 1891 he met Toulouse-Lautrec and began showing his work at the annual exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants. His first show was at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in 1896. He left Paris in 1910 for the South of France.

Bonnard always had a great admiration for Renoir and visited him regularly in his studio in Cagnes and regarded him "like a rather strict father".

There is a photograph of Renoir with his son Jean, the film director, discovered in Bonnard's archives. The matching photographic negative plate was discovered in the archives of Claude Monet, thus there is a possibility it was actually taken by Monet, who gave the photoprint to Bonnard. Evidentally Bonnard made substantial use of this photograph for his etching, although he made a very fine preliminary drawing as well.