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Property from the Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection, Sold to Benefit the Cleveland Museum of Art

François Bonvin

The Cat

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Lot Closed

October 6, 03:23 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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Property from the Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection, Sold to Benefit the Cleveland Museum of Art

François Bonvin

French 1817–1887

The Cat


signed lower left: F. Bonvin and upper right: F Bonvin

oil on canvas

canvas: 10 ¾ by 16 ¼ in.; 27 by 41 cm

framed: 16 ½ by 22 in.; 42 by 56 cm

Sale: Hotel Drouot, Paris, 12-13 March 1888, no. 22-25

Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin Collection, Cleveland

New York, Wheelock Whitney & Company, François Bonvin 1817-1887: An Exhibition Paintings, 26 April-24 May 1984, no. 11

Hotel Drouot, Paris, 188, no. 22-25 (probably one of the paintings listed as quatre études de chats).

Gabriel P. Weisberg, Bonvin, Paris, 1979, p. 178, cat. no. 35, illustrated.

Wheelock Whitney & Company, François Bonvin 1817-1887: An Exhibition Paintings, New York: 1984, no. 11, illustrated.