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Léon Bonvin

Boy reading

Auction Closed

July 5, 10:16 AM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Léon Bonvin

Paris 1834 - 1866 Meudon

Boy reading


Black chalk with touches of gum arabic;

signed in black chalk, lower right: L. Bonvin

and dated, lower left: 1857

233 by 155 mm

Gustave Tempelaere (1840-1904), Paris,
thence by descent to his son,
Julien Tempelaere (1876-1961), Paris,
thence by descent,
Private Collection, Paris
Paris, Fondation Custodia, Léon Bonvin: Drawn to the Everyday, 1834–1866, 2022-2023, no. 21
M. Guichané and G. Weisberg, Léon Bonvin: Drawn to the Everyday, 1834–1866, Paris 2022, p. 226, no. 21, p. 123, fig. 21, reproduced, and p. 57