Still Life with a Copper Pot and Ladle
François Bonvin (French, 1817-1887)
October 10, 1879
- Medium
- Black and red chalk with traces of incising on tan laid paper, laid down on tan wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 14.8 × 20.2 cm (5 7/8 × 8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Celia and David Hilliard
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Poor and largely self-taught, François Bonvin saved money for his art studies by working as a clerk in the Paris police department. He became friends with the painter Gustave Courbet and art critic Jules Champfleury and was influenced by the naturalism of earlier masters, such as Jan Vermeer and Jean-Baptiste Chardin. Bonvin came to be regarded as one of the founders of the French Realist movement. In 1879 ill health forced the artist to concentrate on small-scale still lifes, such as this intimate chalk study of humble kitchen implements.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
