Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006240Servant Drawing Water from the Fountain
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower left, in charcoal: “f. Bonvin 1861”
Provenance
Gustave Tempelaere (1840–1904), Paris [according to Paris 1998]. Henri-Camille Marcel (1854–1926; also Henry Marcel;), Paris [according to London 1982]. Christian Humann (1929–1981), Paris and New York [according to W. M. Brady & Co. 2024]. Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich, by 1982 [London 1982]. Private collection, Germany, by 1998 [Paris 1998]. Private collection, New York [W. M. Brady & Co. 2024]; sold through W. M. Brady & Co., New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2024.
Exhibition history
London, P. & D. Colnaghi with Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, A Collection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings, May 11–June 11, 1982, pp. 46–47 cat. 30 (ill.; as The Copper Fountain). Paris, Galerie Berès, François Bonvin, Master of the “Realist School,” 1817–1887, 1998–99, n. p., cat. 52 (ill.); also, Pittsburgh, The Frick Art and Historical Center.
Publications
Master Drawings 1490–1940 (New York: W. M. Brady & Co., 2024), no. 34 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- François Bonvin / French, 1817–1887
- Date
- 1861
- Medium
- Charcoal on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 40.8 × 30.8 cm (16 1/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Acquisition Fund
- Accession no.
- 2024.149
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