La Porte de St Malo à Dinan
François Bonvin
1871
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 15.7 x 22 cm (6 3/16 x 8 11/16 in.) sheet: 28.2 x 43.2 cm (11 1/8 x 17 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ellwanger/Mescha Collection
Accession Number
2006.163.18
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...