Description
A lute and flute rest on top of sheet music. This painting was intended to hang above a door, opposite still lifes that represented the other fine arts of painting and sculpture (the two related paintings are in the Musée du Louvre, Paris). Bonvin was part of the 19th-century movement known as Realism. Led by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), the Realist painters were interested in depicting the world that surrounded them, as well as the popular culture of their time.
Provenance
(Couturier sale, Hôtel Drouot, March 19, 1976 (lot 42), sold to Galerie Brame and Lorenceau) (1976); (Galerie Brame and Lorenceau, Paris, sold to Marianne Feilchenfeldt) (1976); (Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zürich, sold to Noah L. Butkin) (1976-1977); Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art as a result of disclaimer by Muriel S. Butkin (1977-1980); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1980-)
Accession Number
1980.233
Medium
oil on fabric
Dimensions
Unframed: 62.6 x 116 cm (24 5/8 x 45 11/16 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Bequest of Noah L. Butkin