François Bonvin Etching
François Bonvin
1861
Medium
Etching with drypoint on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 21.9 × 16.4 cm (8 5/8 × 6 1/2 in.); Sheet: 27.5 × 21 cm (10 7/8 × 8 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
117445
About the Artist
François Bonvin
François Bonvin (1817–1887) was a French Realist painter whose quiet, meticulously observed canvases of domestic interiors and humble working-class subjects placed him among the most thoughtful and committed practitioners of the Realist movement in nineteenth-century France. Born in Vaugirard, on the outskirts of Paris, Bonvin came from modest origins and largely educated himself as an artist thro...