Portrait of Jean Léglise, Merchant, Mayor of Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx
1868
Léon Bonnat
Léon Bonnat (French, 1833–1922)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Portrait of Jean Léglise, Merchant, Mayor of Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx, 1868. Léon Bonnat (French, 1833–1922). Oil on fabric; unframed: 80.1 x 65.3 cm (31 9/16 x 25 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Noah L. Butkin 1980.232 Bonnat was an academic painter as well as a teacher who encouraged freedom of expression and execution. He recommended traveling to Madrid to visit the Prado Museum, introduced Paris to Spanish painting technique, and influenced the evolution of French painting.
- Maker/Artist
- Bonnat, Léon
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 80.1 x 65.3 cm (31 9/16 x 25 11/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed upper left: Ln Bonnat. / 1868.
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1980.232
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Noah L. Butkin
- Exhibitions
- The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830 - 1900, Year in Review: 1980, <em>The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900. </em>Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO; Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland (1980-82).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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