Thistle in front of a Winter Landscape

1864

18.7 cm 24.6 cm

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Léon Bonvin was born in Vaugirard, just outside Paris in 1834. Despite displaying great talent in the medium of watercolor he was largely unrecognized by his contemporaries. In 1866 he hanged himself at the age of 32, apparently due to financial difficulties. Working at his fa...

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William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1864 (?) by purchase [through George A. Lucas as agent] [1]; inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931,[1] In a diary entry for 13 February 1864 Lucas records ""Visit from Bonvin with 3 aquarelles, Salads, dessert & winter landscape"" (Randall, Diary of George A. Lucas, vol. 2, p. 172), given that there are no other watercolors of this subject from this date or before this date in Walters' collection, it is likely that this watercolor is the ""winter landscape"" Lucas descibes.
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