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Landscape Near Paris

c. 1860
(French, 1834–1866)
France, 19th century
watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cream laid paper
Support: Cream(2) laid paper
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Sheet: 9.3 x 25 cm (3 11/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Gift of Robert Arthur Mann 1977.22
Location: not on view
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In his delicate studies of flowers and fields, like this panoramic view of the distant Paris, Bonvin captured the beauty of nature, observed with an innocent, untrained eye. His untutored responses to nature permitted him to be more experimental than his contemporaries working in watercolor. A realist in his rendering of natural detail, Bonvin simultaneously foreshadowed Impressionism with his interest in light and atmosphere.
Landscape Near Paris

Landscape Near Paris

c. 1860

Léon Bonvin

(French, 1834–1866)
France, 19th century

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