Portrait of a Woman and her Dog, 1871
Henri Monnierexpand_more
Watercolor and ink with white heighteningexpand_more
Gift of Eric G. Carlson in memory of Edith Garmezyexpand_more 2009.30.3
Not on Viewexpand_more
Henri Bonaventure Monnier (1805–1877) was an actor and playwright as well as an artist. A contemporary of Honoré Daumier and Paul Gavarni, Monnier was a good-humored chronicler of French middle-class mores. He applied his considerable wit to satirizing the foibles and pretentions of his contemporaries and is best known for his creation of the character of Monsieur Joseph Prudhomme, a typical bourgeois—well-intentioned but stupid and pretentious, naïve and very verbose. Building on the success of his fictitious everyman, in the 1850s Monnier stepped on stage, bringing his character to life. The charming drawing of a woman reading bears no specific identification, but given her age and the intimacy of the scene, she may in fact be based on the artist’s wife.
Details
- Title
- Portrait of a Woman and her Dog
- Artist Life
- Paris 1799–Paris 1877
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2009.30.3
- Provenance
- Jacques Fischer, Paris (1996); Eric G. Carlson, NY
- Curator Approved
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