The collection of Baron Denys Cochin
Bonnard
Summer in Normandy
1912 · Canvas, 114 × 128 cm
See in the collectionThe terrace of Ma Roulotte, the house Bonnard had just bought at Vernonnet, under an awning, with the view towards Giverny, Marthe in a deckchair and a dog at her feet, painted in 1912[1]. The 1985 catalogue of the Soviet museums opens its provenance with “D[enys] Cochin collection, Paris”, before Bernheim-Jeune in 1913[2]. Denys Cochin thus had it the very year it was painted, and let it go at once; it is the one Bonnard the family counts[3].
In his hands: Came in 1912 · Left in 1913, to Bernheim-Jeune
Today: At the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, Ж-3356, which came in 1918 from the collection of Ivan Morozov, for whom it was one of the last Bonnards bought, with the great panels of his staircase[1]. Morozov, on Diaghilev’s advice, had gone to the rue de Babylone to see how Maurice Denis painted[4].
Photograph on Wikimedia Commons, “Pierre Bonnard Summer in Normandy.jpg”, after The Athenaeum, public domain
Sources (4)
1.Musée d’Art moderne occidental, reconstitution virtuelle, Pierre Bonnard, Summer in Normandy, 1912, musée Pouchkine, Ж-3356 : notice et provenance, notice.
Reference work · read in full, 7 October 2026 · view ↗
« Pierre Bonnard, Summer in Normandy, 1912. Oil on canvas, 114 x 128 cm. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Provenance: 1918, from the collection of I. A. Morozov. Inv.: Ж-3356. Inv. GMNZI: 262. »
2.Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in Soviet Museums, Leningrad, Aurora, 1985, p. 418 : notice du Bonnard inv. 3356 du musée Pouchkine, lue par la recherche plein texte d’Internet Archive, p. 418.
Reference work · partly read (restricted access), 7 October 2026 · view ↗
« Bonnard. Inv. No. 3356. Dauberville II, 695. Provenance: D. Cochin collection, Paris; 1913 Bernheim-Jeune Gallery. »
3.Jacques Cochin, « Le goût en peinture de Denys Cochin, les tableaux achetés / échangés / vendus / transmis » et « Les peintres dans la collection Denys Cochin », compilations, juin 2026, deux feuillets transmis par la famille, « Les peintres dans la collection Denys Cochin », feuillet.
Family document · read in full, 6 October 2026
« Les peintres dans la collection Denys Cochin, compilation de Jacques Cochin en 06/2026 : Alix d’Hanethan, Albert Besnard, Pierre Bonnard, Adolphe Félix Cals, Charles Camoin, Paul Cézanne, Camille Corot, Eugène Corneau, Gustave Courbet, Honoré Daumier, Jacques-Louis David, Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Maurice Denis, André Derain, Fernand Desmoulin, Jacques Doucet, Raoul Dufy, Henri Fantin-Latour, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Othon Friesz, Paul Gauguin, Francisco de Goya, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jan Davidszoon de Heem, Hubert Robert, Johan Jongkind, Eugène Laermans, Eugène Lami, Vicente López y Portaña, Édouard Manet, Marcel-Lenoir (Jules Oury), Claude Monet, Adolphe Monticelli, Berthe Morisot, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Robert Lotiron, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Henry Ramey, Odilon Redon, Auguste Renoir, Théodore Rousseau, Paul Sérusier, Francesco Simonini, Paul Signac, Alfred Sisley, Claude Thiénon, Pierino del Vaga, Jan Frans Van Bloemen dit Orizonte, Vincent Van Gogh, Fernand Verhaegen, Kees Van Dongen. »
4.Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in Soviet Museums, Leningrad, Aurora, 1985, p. 418 : notice du Bonnard inv. 3356 du musée Pouchkine, lue par la recherche plein texte d’Internet Archive, p. 418.
Reference work · partly read (restricted access), 7 October 2026 · view ↗
« Following Sergei Diaghilev’s advice, [Morozov] visited Denys Cochin in Paris to take a look at how Maurice Denis painted; he first saw [Denis’s] decorative work at the Salon des Indépendants and in the house of Baron Cochin in Paris. »
