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La Passion
La Passion

La Passion

Primary (Lille, France, 1868–Paris, France, 1941)
NationalityFrench, Europe
Date1895
MediumPen lithograph with hand coloring
DimensionsSheet: 17 1/16 × 21 5/8 in. (43.4 × 55 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Jack S. Blanton Curatorial Endowment Fund, 2005.158
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2005.158
On View
Not on view
Label Text
While some artists and intellectuals rejected organized religion in general, and Catholicism in particular, others looked to the early Church as a period of genuine spirituality. Bernard was one of these neo-Catholics and his print returns to the linear, flat, static, iconic style characteristic of medieval art and evokes the tradition of hand-colored woodcut prints made for popular devotion in the fifteenth century. The artist attempts to recapture the innocence of an earlier time in the deliberately crude depiction of the Crucifixion.
Exhibitions
La Passion
La Passion
Emile Bernard
1895
Idylle
Idylle
Emile Bernard
1925
Vue prise dans la salle des pas perdus quelques instants avant la réouverture des portes de l'Assemblée Nationale [View into the lobby, before the reopening of the doors to the National Assembly], plate 245 from Actualités, in Le Charivari, 4 November 185
Vue prise dans la salle des pas perdus quelques instants avant la réouverture des portes de l'Assemblée Nationale [View into the lobby, before the reopening of the doors to the National Assembly], plate 245 from Actualités, in Le Charivari, 4 November 185
Honoré Daumier
1828
This image is for study only, and may not accurately represent the object’s true color or scale…
Qu'est-ce donc qui l'a inventée la poudre, monsieur?...que papa dit que ce n’est pas vous...[Tell me, sir, who discovered the powder?...Because Papa said that it was not you...], plate 10 from Les Enfans [sic] terribles [Terrible Children], in Le Charivar
Paul Gavarni
1840
Dis donc, s'ils allaient nous faire un mauvais parti tous ces meurt-de-faim là?…[What if they decide to rough us up a bit, those dying of hunger?...], plate 90 from Caricaturana, in Le Charivari, 23 September 1838
Dis donc, s'ils allaient nous faire un mauvais parti tous ces meurt-de-faim là?…[What if they decide to rough us up a bit, those dying of hunger?...], plate 90 from Caricaturana, in Le Charivari, 23 September 1838
Honoré Daumier
1838
La Famille africaine, No. 31 from Les Grimaces
La Famille africaine, No. 31 from Les Grimaces
Louis-Léopold Boilly
circa 1832
La canne que papa a trouvée dans l’armoire de maman…[The cane that Papa found in Mama’s closet…], plate 35 from Les Enfans [sic] terrible [Terrible Children], in Le Charivari, 5 April 1841
La canne que papa a trouvée dans l’armoire de maman…[The cane that Papa found in Mama’s closet…], plate 35 from Les Enfans [sic] terrible [Terrible Children], in Le Charivari, 5 April 1841
Paul Gavarni
1841
Image Not Available for Papa, voilà ton homme de paille! [Papa, here’s your stooge!], plate 44 from Les Enfans [sic] terribles [Terrible Children], in La Caricature, 19 September 1841
Papa, voilà ton homme de paille! [Papa, here’s your stooge!], plate 44 from Les Enfans [sic] terribles [Terrible Children], in La Caricature, 19 September 1841
Paul Gavarni
1841
Image Not Available for La rose que vous avez donnée à ma maman? … Ah! oui, oui! [The rose that you gave to Mama? … Ah! Yes, yes!], plate 14 from Les Enfans [sic] terribles [Terrible Children], in Le Charivari, 23 June 1840
La rose que vous avez donnée à ma maman? … Ah! oui, oui! [The rose that you gave to Mama? … Ah! Yes, yes!], plate 14 from Les Enfans [sic] terribles [Terrible Children], in Le Charivari, 23 June 1840
Paul Gavarni
1840
Image Not Available for N’est-ce pas, Mosieu [sic] Prud’homme, qu’il ne faut pas mettre un H à omelette? … là! vois-tu M’man [sic]! … [Isn’t it true, Monsieur Prud’homme that you don’t put an H in omelet? See Mama!], plate 48 from Les Enfans [sic] terribles [Terrible Children],
N’est-ce pas, Mosieu [sic] Prud’homme, qu’il ne faut pas mettre un H à omelette? … là! vois-tu M’man [sic]! … [Isn’t it true, Monsieur Prud’homme that you don’t put an H in omelet? See Mama!], plate 48 from Les Enfans [sic] terribles [Terrible Children],
Paul Gavarni
1841
Maman a écrit à mosieu [sic] Prosper et papa a vu la letter [Mama had written to Monsieur Prosper and Papa saw the letter], plate 49 from Les Enfans [sic] terribles [Terrible Children], in Le Charivari, 29 May 1842
Maman a écrit à mosieu [sic] Prosper et papa a vu la letter [Mama had written to Monsieur Prosper and Papa saw the letter], plate 49 from Les Enfans [sic] terribles [Terrible Children], in Le Charivari, 29 May 1842
Paul Gavarni
1842
Les Effets de la médecine [The Results of Medicine], after James Gillray
Les Effets de la médecine [The Results of Medicine], after James Gillray
Unknown French
circa 1816