Detail of From the Balcony by Bonnard in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018

Title: From the Balcony

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

Date: 1909

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 49 × 39 1/8 in. (124.5 × 99.4 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Bequest of Charles Goldman, 1966

Accession Number: 66.65.1

Here, Bonnard captured a bucolic summer day at the family estate in Le Grand-Lemps, a small town in the Isère region northwest of Grenoble. He was attached to the place, which belonged to his mother Elisabeth Mertzdorff. The first landscapes Bonnard painted were of the garden and park of the estate, and at the time of this picture, his sister Andrée and her husband, the composer Claude Terrasse, summered there. Five of their children, at play with two dogs and a cat, can be glimpsed through and over the balustrade.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489502