Original collotype print after the earlier Pierre Bonnard lithograph, from the limited edition portfolio "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". Printed and published by Triton Press, Inc., New York in 1974. Sheet size: 17 x 14 inches; print size: 11-1/2 x 10 inches. Signed in stone lower right, on Brandywine Cover paper. Shown on a black background. Mint condition new old stock from our immaculate copy of "Twenty Four Masterpieces of Graphic Art". Collotype is a printing process invented in the mid-19th century famous for producing extremely fine detail and rich tonal gradation, using photograph negatives to create printing plates. Widely used for art books, postcards, and fine art reproductions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, today collotype is commercially uncommon, but still practiced by a few master printers. Collotype prints are admired by photographers, printmakers, and collectors for its unmatched subtlety. Bonnard rarely went beyond the field of the bourgeois Parisian interior or the streets and environs of Paris for inspiration for his paintings and prints. He produced order where it did not seem to exist, in the crowded room or on the laden table. The original lithograph, rendered in black and white, is an excellent and rare example in which he has adapted many of the painter's devices to the making of an historic print.