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    Museum collections / The Cleveland Museum of Art
    The Letter of Admission, Interior of a Convent
    François Bonvin. The Letter of Admission, Interior of a Convent, c. 1867. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art

    AT-00011732

    The Letter of Admission, Interior of a Convent

    by François Bonvin

    Also known as: Nun Holding a Letter

    View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

    Inscriptions

    signed, lower left, in black crayon: f. Bonvin

    Provenance

    M. Marmontel ? (not stamped, not in Lugt) (according to departmental card). Mme. Paul Brodin, Paris (according to Weisberg 1979, p. 307, cat. no. 341). [Galerie Fischer-Kiener, Paris] (according to Weisberg 1979, p. 307, cat. no. 341)

    Exhibition history

    Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980). The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830 - 1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 12, 1980-January 18, 1981); The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (March 7-May 10, 1981); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (July 23-September 20, 1981); Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (November 5, 1981-January 4, 1982). French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Cleveland Museum of Art publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Cleveland Museum of Art is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    François Bonvin (French, 1817–1887)
    Date
    c. 1867
    Medium
    black, white, and red crayon
    Dimensions
    Sheet: 41.7 x 30.5 cm (16 7/16 x 12 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    Drawing
    Department
    Drawings
    Credit line
    Donated by friends of Moselle Taylor Meals in her memory
    Accession no.
    1979.24

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