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| Keywords: Léon Bonvin - Flowering Chrysanthemum - Walters 371518.jpg In this scene Bonvin has masterfully conveyed the time of day-the early morning when he was free to paint-a chrysanthemum plant is silhouetted against an uncultivated patch of wild carrots grasses and weeds In the mid-ground a peasant stoops toiling in the soil; discernible through the morning mists rendered in white wash are houses and church spires An inscription on the reverse of the sheet identifies the site as the plain of Issy just outside Paris's fortifications In the 1860s both Vaugirard and the adjoining village of Issy were rapidly being developed to provide housing for those who had been displaced by Baron Haussmann's transformation of the core of Paris 1863 watercolor gouache iron gall ink and pen heightened with gum varnish over graphite underdrawing on moderately textured moderately thick cream wove paper cm 24 3 18 6 accession number 37 1518 9003 William T Walters Baltimore February 28 1863 by commission George A Lucas as agent Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Commissioned by William T Walters 1863 Signature and date In brown ink lower right Léon Bonvin 1863; Number In graphite verso 33; Watermark J Whatman Turkey Mill The Drawings and Watercolors of Léon Bonvin The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland; The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1980-1981 A Vanishing Meadow The Watercolors of Léon Bonvin The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1994 Parallels and Precedents Baltimore's George A Lucas Collection Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1995 Léon Bonvin 1834-1866 Government House Annapolis 1997 The Essence of Line place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Issy-les-Moulineaux 1863 The Essence of Line Paintings by Léon Bonvin in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
