Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011270Landscape Near Paris
by Léon Bonvin
About the Artwork
In his delicate studies of flowers and fields, like this panoramic view of the distant Paris, Bonvin captured the beauty of nature, observed with an innocent, untrained eye. His untutored responses to nature permitted him to be more experimental than his contemporaries working in watercolor. A realist in his rendering of natural detail, Bonvin simultaneously foreshadowed Impressionism with his interest in light and atmosphere.
Inscriptions
VERSO, center, in black ink: 35.49. [upsidedown] ; ON A SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECE OF PAPER (now removed and in departmental file), inscribed in brown ink: 158. Vue panoramiq[cropped] / environs de Paris - aquarelle / Léon Bonvin.
Provenance
Jean Paulhan (according to departmental card). [Shepherd Gallery Associates, New York, 1976, cat. no. 20] (catalogue in departmental file)
Exhibition history
Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978). French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995). Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Léon Bonvin (French, 1834–1866)
- Date
- c. 1860
- Medium
- watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 9.3 x 25 cm (3 11/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert Arthur Mann
- Accession no.
- 1977.22
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