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Kitchen Interior

Date

1856

Creator

Léon Bonvin

Location

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art

What is most apparent in Bonvin’s study is his detailed rendering of every object in the room. The candlesticks across the top of the mantle are individually observed. The wood stacked against the rear wall is ready to be burned in the stove at the left. The ceramic containers on the stove and the metallic pots and pans hanging from the wall above are carefully outlined. Bonvin has brought a meticulous sense of observation to his description of this empty kitchen...The hint of color, and the way light subtly bathes the corner of the room, provides a suggestion of the superb colorist that Bonvin would become within a few short years. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)

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What is most apparent in Bonvin’s study is his detailed rendering of every object in the room. The candlesticks across the top of the mantle are individually observed. The wood stacked against the rear wall is ready to be burned in the stove at the left. The ceramic containers on the stove and the metallic pots and pans hanging from the wall above are carefully outlined. Bonvin has brought a meticulous sense of observation to his description of this empty kitchen...The hint of color, and the way light subtly bathes the corner of the room, provides a suggestion of the superb colorist that Bonvin would become within a few short years. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)
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  • What is most apparent in Bonvin’s study is his detailed rendering of every object in the room. The candlesticks across the top of the mantle are individually observed. The wood stacked against the rear wall is ready to be burned in the stove at the left. The ceramic containers on the stove and the metallic pots and pans hanging from the wall above are carefully outlined. Bonvin has brought a meticulous sense of observation to his description of this empty kitchen...The hint of color, and the way light subtly bathes the corner of the room, provides a suggestion of the superb colorist that Bonvin would become within a few short years. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)
  • What is most apparent in Bonvin’s study is his detailed rendering of every object in the room. The candlesticks across the top of the mantle are individually observed. The wood stacked against the rear wall is ready to be burned in the stove at the left. The ceramic containers on the stove and the metallic pots and pans hanging from the wall above are carefully outlined. Bonvin has brought a meticulous sense of observation to his description of this empty kitchen...The hint of color, and the way light subtly bathes the corner of the room, provides a suggestion of the superb colorist that Bonvin would become within a few short years. from Weisberg, Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art (Notre Dame, 2012)
Léon Bonvin (French, 1834 - 1866)
1856
Drawings
Ink and watercolor on laid paper mounted to stiff gray wove paper
2009.045.011
domesticity
interior architecture
kitchens
Not on view, please request access
9 x 5 3/4 in. (22.86 x 14.61 cm)
The Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection

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