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Although largely self-taught, Bonvin was influenced by François-Marius Granet and Gustave Courbet. Accepted by the Salon from 1847, he was successful during the Second Empire and received the Légion d'honneur in 1870. A cabinet painting of a young woman peeling potatoes, this work’s realism is based in part on the genre scenes of Jean-Baptiste Chardin (1699–1779) and the seventeenth-century Dutch School.

National Museum Cardiff

Title

The Young Housewife

Date

1875

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 40.5 x W 32.1 cm

Accession number

NMW A 2644

Acquisition method

purchased with the assistance of funds from the James Pyke Thompson Bequest, 1914

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Label on verso: Loan Exhibition of Pictures from the National Museum of Wales (in aid of the friends of the National Museum of Wales) Agnews Galleries London 1956 Artist: Bonvin Title: "The Young Housewife" Museum Catalogue No. 153 No. in Exhibition: 14 Label on verso: 16 Signed: (lower right) F. Bonvin Dated: no

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