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Seated Boy with a Portfolio

Seated Boy with a Portfolio

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François Bonvin

François Bonvin's painting Seated Boy with a Portfolio shows a young apprentice, a theme common among realist painters in the 1850s. Bonvin constructed his painted images from observation and captured his subjects exactly. He is known as a painter of genre scenes and still lifes. This painting captured an intimate moment when a young boy is fully responding to the art he sees, training his eye as part of being an apprentice, taking advantage of being alone in the studio to learn.
Artist
François Bonvin
(French, 1817 - 1887)
Title
Seated Boy with a Portfolio
Date
1857
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
13 x 10 9/16 in. Overall
Credit
Art Collections Fund and Martha Renk Fund purchase
Accession No.
1982.57
Classification
Paintings
Geography
France

Related

<span>Date unknown, with Shepherd Gallery (New York, NY). 1982, sold by Hazlitt, Gooden &amp; Fox Ltd. (London, England) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]</span>

  • Oklahoma City Museum of Art. "Artist as Narrator: Nineteenth Century Narrative Art in England and France." Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.
  • Weisberg, Gabriel P. "Francois Bonvin's 'Seated Boy with a Portfolio'." Bulletin 1981-1983. Elvehjem Museum of Art (1983): 14-20. pp. 14-20, no. 1
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Handbook of the Collection." Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, 1990. no. 86
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Bulletin 1981-1983." Madison: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1983. p. 15

  • Artist as Narrator: Nineteenth-Century Narrative in England and France: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 9/8/2005–12/4/2005
  • Francois Bonvin: Wheelock Whitney & Co., 4/26/1984–5/24/1984

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