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| Keywords: Léon Bonvin - Cook with Red Apron - Walters 371505.jpg In this scene a cook wearing a vermilion apron is chopping a large cabbage Commonplace vegetables are strewn in front of her including turnips leeks celery roots carrots and lettuce The model has been identified as the artist's wife Constance Félicité Gaudon and the location as the family's small tavern in Vaugirard Light from a window at the right penetrates the scene to reveal details in the background including the hanging basket and the shelf with a row of candlesticks a coffee mill and a lantern Placed on the stove is a large glimmering copper pot 1862 watercolor gouache pen and iron gall ink heightened with gum varnish over graphite underdrawing on cream moderately thick moderately textured laid paper cm 20 8 16 2 accession number 37 1505 3154 William T Walters Baltimore December 1 1862 by purchase from the artist with George A Lucas as agent Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1862 Signature and date Brown ink lower left Léon Bonvin 62; Number Graphite verso C2 The Essence of Line A Baltimorean in Paris George A Lucas 1860-1909 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979 The Drawings and Watercolors of Léon Bonvin The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland; The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1980-1981 A Connoisseur's Portfolio A Vanishing Meadow The Watercolors of Léon Bonvin The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1994 Léon Bonvin 1834-1866 Government House Annapolis 1997 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D A Connoisseur's Portfolio The Essence of Line Paintings by Léon Bonvin in the Walters Art Museum Aprons in art | ||||
