Etching Tools
François Bonvin
1861
Medium
Etching; proof
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 3/16 × 8 7/8 in. (31 × 22.6 cm) Plate: 8 11/16 × 5 13/16 in. (22.1 × 14.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
Accession Number
66.559.32
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...