# Dining Room in the Country [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BONNARD, Pierre]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 168 x 204 cm ## Commentary In 1912, Pierre Bonnard bought a country house called Ma Roulotte \("My Caravan"\) at Vernonnet, a small town on the Seine. This painting shows the dining room there, with cats perching on the chairs and Marthe de Méligny, the artist's wife, leaning on the windowsill. Bonnard, who considered himself "the last of the Impressionists," emphasized the expressive qualities of bright colours and loose brushstrokes in this picture. He united the interior with the exterior through the open window and door and linked the forms by bathing them in related hues. Unlike the Impressionists, however, Bonnard painted entirely from memory. And like the Symbolists, he wanted his works to reflect his subjective response to the subject. ## Related artworks - [Blue Pot]() - [Boulevard]() - [Cats on the Railing]() - [Earthly Paradise]() - [Flowers on a Red Carpet]() - [France-Champagne]() - [La Revue blanche]() - [Midi landscape]() - [Naked in the Tub]() - [Nude in 'contre-jour']() - [Seaside with Landscape]() - [Self-Portrait]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()