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    Museum collections / The Cleveland Museum of Art
    Water Carrier Seated on His Yoke
    François Bonvin. Water Carrier Seated on His Yoke, 1861. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art

    AT-00011811

    Water Carrier Seated on His Yoke

    by François Bonvin

    View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

    Inscriptions

    signed, lower right, in black chalk: f. Bonvin. 1861.

    Provenance

    all according to Weisberg 1979, p. 277, cat. no. 275: M.A. Bellino (not stamped, not in Lugt); [his sale, Paris, Gallerie Georges Petit, 20 May 1892]. Georges Martin du Nord, Paris (not stamped, not in Lugt). [Shepherd Gallery, New York]

    Exhibition history

    Year in Review: 1978. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 13-March 18, 1979). 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
    1861
    Medium
    black chalk and brown crayon
    Dimensions
    Sheet: 42.1 x 31.1 cm (16 9/16 x 12 1/4 in.); Secondary Support: 41.1 x 31.1 cm (16 3/16 x 12 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    Drawing
    Department
    Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Muriel S. Butkin
    Accession no.
    1978.128

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