19th-Century Works of Art
19th-Century Works of Art
Property from a Distinguished American Collection
Léon Bonnat
The Bandit's Wife
Lot Closed
October 20, 07:51 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished American Collection
Léon Bonnat
French
1833-1922
The Bandit's Wife
signed and dated L. Bonnat/ 1872 (upper left)
oil on canvas laid down on board
canvas: 28 1/2 by 22 4/5 in.; 72.4 by 57.8 cm
framed: 41 by 35 in; 104 by 89 cm
Thomas E. Stillmon
Mr. J. Weir, New Hampshire
Sale: Christie's, New York, 15 February 1994, lot 39
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Illustrated catalogue of paintings and other works of art at the opening exhibition, New York 1897, p. 72, no. 459.
Léon Bonnat was born in the Basque city of Bayonne, and his family moved to Madrid when he was 14, where he began his artistic education at the Academia Real de las Bellas Artes de San Fernando and in the Federico Madrazo. In 1854, with a grant from the city of Bayonne, he moved to Paris to study with Léon Cogniet at the École des beaux-arts. Bonnat exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1857 and came in second place for the Prix de Rome the same year. Even though he did not win, further assistance from his home city granted him three years in Rome, where he became friends with Edgar Degas, Gustave Moreau, and Jean-Jacques Henner. Bonnat made return trips to Italy the following decade and ;painted mostly genre scenes, often of peasant women and children, as seen here.