Who Is La Petite Blanchisseuse: The Little Laundry Girl?
La Petite Blanchisseuse (The Little Laundry Girl) by Pierre Bonnard Pierre Bonnard, a French artist, born in 1867 and died in 1947, belonged to a group of French Post-Impressionist artists called Nabis; a Hebrew word meaning prophet. The group “broke away from academic tradition to embrace an approach that emphasized decorative unity and a more personal, abstract style.” (Schneider) Mister Bonnard was strongly influenced by the Japanese art of woodcut; a print made from a design cut in a block of wood. Pierre Bonnard justly earned his nickname within the Nabi group, “le Nabi très Japonard, or the ultra-Japanese Nabi.” (Phillips) Much of his art came from real life experiences, as did his piece; La Petite Blanchisseuse; a lithograph, 1895–96