Feverfew in front of a Landscape, Issy-les-Moulineaux (?)

1863

18.6 cm 24.3 cm

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In this scene, Bonvin has masterfully conveyed the time of day-the early morning when he was free to paint-a chrysanthemum plant is silhouetted against an uncultivated patch of wild carrots, grasses, and weeds. In the mid-ground, a peasant stoops, toiling in the soil; discerni...

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William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1863 (?), by commission [George A. Lucas as agent] [1], certainly purchased before 1885 [2]; 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).[2] Published as a wood engraving in ""Harper's New Monthly Magazine,"" 1885, captioned as ""owned by Mr. W. T. Walters.
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