The Maid
François Bonvin
c. 1875
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
44.5 × 30.8 cm (17 1/2 × 12 1/8 in.); Framed: 76.9 × 63.5 × 12.7 cm (30 1/4 × 25 × 5 in.)
Classification
oil on canvas
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
117477
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...