Still Life with a Copper Pot and Ladle
François Bonvin
October 10, 1879
Medium
Black and red chalk with traces of incising on tan laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper
Dimensions
14.8 × 20.2 cm (5 7/8 × 8 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
197867
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...