Femme debout dans sa baignoire (Woman Standing in Her Bath)

Pierre Bonnard

1925

  • Titles Femme debout dans sa baignoire (Woman Standing in Her Bath) (Proper)
  • Artist Pierre Bonnard, French, 1867 - 1947
  • Medium lithograph on simili-japon paper
  • Dimensions sheet: 9 9/16 × 12 3/4 in. (24.3 × 32.4 cm) image: 13 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (34.3 × 21.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Roy Curtis Green, AFI.162.2015
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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