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Still Life with Wild Flowers

1864

Léon Bonvin

(French, 1834–1866)

France, 19th century

Watercolor and gouache

Support: Cream(2) wove paper

Sheet: 18.5 x 24.3 cm (7 5/16 x 9 9/16 in.)

Bequest of Noah L. Butkin 1980.235

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower left, in black ink: Léon Bonvin. 1864.

Citations
Guichané, Maud, Gabriel P. Weisberg, Léon Bonvin, Jo Briggs, Ger Luijten, and Michèle Quentin. Drawn to the Everyday: Léon Bonvin 1834-1866 : Catalogue Raisonné. Paris : Fondation Custodia, 2022. Reproduced: p. 191, no. 89; mentioned: p. 246, no. 89
Exhibition history

CMA, French Drawings from the Collection (Dec. 13, 1994-Mar. 12, 1995).

CMA, The Lessons of the Academy (Feb. 8-May 29, 1983).

CMA, Year in Review for 1980 (June 24-July 19, 1981), cma Bulletin 68 (1981), p. 215 no. 178.

CMA; Baltimore, Walters Art Gallery, The Drawings and Watercolors of Léon Bonvin (Nov. 12, 1980-Jan. 18, 1981; Feb. 15-Mar. 27, 1981), no. 16, illus. p. 41.

Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN (8/26/2012 - 11/15/2012): "Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art", ex. cat. no. 15, p. 62-63.

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

The Lessons of the Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 8-May 29, 1983).

French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art. Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (organizer) (September 2-December 2, 2012).

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