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Landscape Near Paris
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About this work
In his delicate studies of flowers and fields, like this panoramic view of the distant Paris, Bonvin captured the beauty of nature, observed with an innocent, untrained eye. His untutored responses to nature permitted him to be more experimental than his contemporaries working in watercolor. A realist in his rendering of natural detail, Bonvin simultaneously foreshadowed Impressionism with his interest in light and atmosphere.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineLandscape Near Paris, c. 1860. Léon Bonvin (French, 1834–1866). Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cream laid paper; sheet: 9.3 x 25 cm (3 11/16 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Arthur Mann, 1977.22
