Servant Drawing Water from the Fountain

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1861

François Bonvin
French, 1817–1887

Status: On View, Gallery 223
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: François Bonvin
Title: Servant Drawing Water from the Fountain
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1861
Medium: Charcoal on tan laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, lower left, in charcoal: “f. Bonvin 1861”
Dimensions: 40.8 × 30.8 cm (16 1/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Regenstein Acquisition Fund
Reference Number: 2024.149
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Master Drawings 1490–1940 (New York: W. M. Brady & Co., 2024), no. 34 (ill.).

London, P. & D. Colnaghi with Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, A Collection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings, May 11–June 11, 1982, pp. 46–47 cat. 30 (ill.; as The Copper Fountain).
Paris, Galerie Berès, François Bonvin, Master of the “Realist School,” 1817–1887, 1998–99, n. p., cat. 52 (ill.); also, Pittsburgh, The Frick Art and Historical Center.

Gustave Tempelaere (1840–1904), Paris [according to Paris 1998]. Henri-Camille Marcel (1854–1926; also Henry Marcel;), Paris [according to London 1982]. Christian Humann (1929–1981), Paris and New York [according to W. M. Brady & Co. 2024]. Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich, by 1982 [London 1982]. Private collection, Germany, by 1998 [Paris 1998]. Private collection, New York [W. M. Brady & Co. 2024]; sold through W. M. Brady & Co., New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2024.

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