Cleveland Museum of Art

Landscape Near Paris

Léon Bonvin

Date

c. 1860

Medium

watercolor, gouache, and graphite on cream laid paper

Culture

France, 19th century

Department

Drawings

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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