John Taylor Johnston (1820–1893)
Léon Bonnat
1880
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
52 1/2 x 44 in. (133.4 x 111.8 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the Trustees, 1880
Accession Number
80.8
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Léon Bonnat · 1833–1922
**Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat** (1833–1922) was a prominent French painter, renowned portraitist, art collector, and influential professor at the École des Beaux-Arts. Born in Bayonne, he spent his formative years from 1846 to 1853 in Madrid, where his father ran a bookshop. There, while assisting in the family business, he copied engravings after Old Masters and received training under the Spani...