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Source Description
This kitchen table scene relates to a group of still lifes with food in the Walters collection, but also differs in significant ways, beyond the obvious variation in scale and medium. Here the viewer looks down onto the table from a higher vantage point, and the staging of the food is simpler: a single type of food is presented on a plate. In Bonvin’s other kitchen still lifes we see a selection of items, nuts, grapes, oranges, or a pie, often with glassware, napkins, silverware or cruets.
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Document identity
localId
103062
label
Ham on a Table
core
obj
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drawing
citationUrl
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2
Source metadata
id
103062
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Ham on a Table
description
This kitchen table scene relates to a group of still lifes with food in the Walters collection, but also differs in significant ways, beyond the obvious variation in scale and medium. Here the viewer looks down onto the table from a higher vantage point, and the staging of the food is simpler: a single type of food is presented on a plate. In Bonvin’s other kitchen still lifes we see a selection of items, nuts, grapes, oranges, or a pie, often with glassware, napkins, silverware or cruets.
provenance
Alexandre Léon Bonvin (1864-1935) [the artist’s son], by inheritance; Louis Bonvin (1897-1967) [his son], by inheritance; Renée Claudel-Bonvin (1921-2022) [his daughter], by inheritance; sale of her estate, Rois et Vaupres, Vire, France, 20 March, 2024; Walters Art Museum, 2024, by purchase.
date
ca. 1850-1855
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
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drawings
imageCount
2
pageCount
2
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
6
height
9.2
dimensionsRaw
H: 2 3/8 × W: 3 5/8 in. (6 × 9.2 cm)
Source extras
med
charcoal on paper
creator_ids
2573
collection_ids
none
exhibition_ids
none
Page inventory
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1
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photo
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b26317fefbcc7088
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no
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2
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photo
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7322af5c3b9fe628
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no
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no