A Nun Seated at a Table Knitting (1862): Art, History and Details

A Nun Seated at a Table Knitting (1862) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is François Bonvin (French, 1817–1887).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

François Bonvin was a prolific watercolorist, and he developed a lifelong interest in modest religious subjects showing scenes of everyday life. This delightfully simple image of a nun knitting reveals the artist's appreciation for 17th-century Dutch artists such as Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), whose work he copied.

Object facts

• Title: A Nun Seated at a Table Knitting
• Date: 1862
• Creator attribution: François Bonvin (French, 1817–1887)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: gouache and watercolor
• Dimensions: Sheet: 21.3 x 17.2 cm (8 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2008.399

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

Further reading listed by the museum

• Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.

View the collection record

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