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Mme Bonnard with her dog at rue de Douai
1907
Medium
oil on cardboard on wood panel
Measurements
109.0 × 87.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1955
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Édouard Vuillard was a member, along with Pierre Bonnard, of the Nabis, a circle of painters instilled with a Symbolist sensibility who were interested in glowing colours and interior worlds. Vuillard painted Bonnard’s mistress, Marthe de Méligny, several times. In this version Marthe is aged around thirty and is shown with her dog. This image of cloistered devotion echoes Bonnard’s own secretive relationship with Marthe, whom he did not marry until 1925, more than thirty years after they met. Vuillard gave the completed picture to Bonnard, who kept it all his life.
Artwork Details
Inscription
inscribed in grey paint l.l.: E Vuillard 1907
Accession Number
3259-4
Department
International Painting
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Subjects (general)
Animals Portraits
Subjects (specific)
Bonnard, Marthe dog (species) France (nation) Paris (inhabited place) seated figures studios (work spaces) women (female humans)