Crab Apple Blossom

1863

9.5 cm 10.2 cm

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"It is a branch of an apple-tree in full bloom; the brown bark and the leaves without elegance set off with all the more vivacity the buds still enfolded and the open petals with the roseate virginal brightness. Starting from a trunk . . . the branch spreads its luminous or so...

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William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1863 (?), by commission [George A. Lucas as agent] [1]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.[1] In a diary entry Lucas records that Bonvin made 12 watercolors for William T. Walters in 1863. The commission was likely given on 12 February (see Randall, Diary of George A. Lucas, vol. 2, p. 150), on 14 October of the same year Lucas records ""Bonvin delivered the 12th flower for W's - paid him the remaining 100 fs making 300 fs for the 12"" (Randall, Diary of George A. Lucas, vol. 2, p. 163).
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