Landscape Near Paris (c. 1860): Art, History and Details

Landscape Near Paris (c. 1860) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Léon Bonvin (French, 1834–1866).

The work and its context

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

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.

Object facts

• Title: Landscape Near Paris
• Date: c. 1860
• Creator attribution: Léon Bonvin (French, 1834–1866)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cream laid paper
• Dimensions: Sheet: 9.3 x 25 cm (3 11/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1977.22

Collection credit

Gift of Robert Arthur Mann

Further reading listed by the museum

• Guichané, Maud, Gabriel P. Weisberg, Léon Bonvin, Jo Briggs, Ger Luijten, and Michèle Quentin. Drawn to the Everyday: Léon Bonvin 1834-1866 : Catalogue Raisonné. Paris : Fondation Custodia, 2022.

View the collection record

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