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The Attributes of Painting

Image credit: The Henry Barber Trust, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham

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This still life depicts the materials used in its making – including palette and brushes, tubes of paint, a portfolio of drawings, an inkwell and a paintbox. The French artist Bonvin painted the objects in the direct and uncompromisingly physical manner of the Realist painters of the mid-nineteenth century. However, the painting was also inspired by Jean-Baptiste Chardin whose 'Attributes of Painting and Sculpture' dates from 1728. Bonvin’s canvas is therefore both a truthful study of artfully arranged objects and an allegory of the art of painting.
Title

The Attributes of Painting

Date

1875–1880

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 50.2 x W 61.3 cm

Accession number

2001.7

Acquisition method

purchased with the assistance of the Resource/Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund and the Friends of the Barber Institute, 2001

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed: F. Bonvin

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