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A Nun Seated at a Table Knitting
François Bonvin1862
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: A Nun Seated at a Table Knitting
- Creator: François Bonvin (French, 1817-1887)
- Date Created: 1862
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 21.3 x 17.2 cm (8 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
- Provenance: [Christie's, New York (26 May 1977), no. 6]; purchased in 1977.
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.399
- Medium: gouache and watercolor
- Inscriptions: lower left, in black gouache: F. Bonvin. 1862.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Collection: Drawings
- Accession Number: 2008.399
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