Facade of the Church of Brou
Medium
Lithograph on ivory chine, laid down on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
Chine: 35.7 × 25.7 cm (14 1/16 × 10 1/8 in.); Sheet: 50.9 × 35.2 cm (20 1/16 × 13 7/8 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129375
About the Artist
Richard Parkes Bonington · 1802–1828
Richard Parkes Bonington (1802–1828) was a British painter and watercolorist who, despite dying at the age of twenty-five, produced a body of work that had a profound and lasting influence on French and British painting. Born in Arnold, near Nottingham, he moved with his family to Calais and then Paris in 1817, where he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Antoine-Jean Gros and copied Old Mas...