The Basement Door (La Sortie de Cave)
François Bonvin
1868
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 27.2 x 20.8 cm (10 11/16 x 8 3/16 in.) sheet: 67.2 x 30.9 cm (26 7/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2006.28.10
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...