Léon Bonnat

[French Academic Painter, 1833-1922]

• Relationships:	Studied under Léon Cogniet, Eugène Delacroix and Madrazo y Kuntz. Bonnat's many students included Edwin Blashfield, James Harwood, Siddons Mowbray, Charles Sprague Pearce, Frederic Vinton, Harry Watrous, Irving R. Wiles, Franklin Brownell, Edwin Lord Weeks and Thomas Eakins.
• Subject matter:	Specializes in Portraits.
• Browse all: French artists

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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
4 works by Leon Bonnat

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of Prince Vyacheslav Tenishev, 1896
The Fountain by St Peter's Basilica in Rome, 1868
Italian Woman, 1860s
Arabian Sheikhs in the Mountains, 1872

Leon Bonnat at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
4 works by Léon Bonnat online

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Commentary on Interior of the Sistine Chapel

Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris   NEW!
Many works by Léon Bonnat online

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online

Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
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5 works online

Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California
Jane Lathrop Stanford, 1881

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Portrait of a Man

Dahesh Museum, New York City (Zoomable)   NEW!
3 works online

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

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Leon Bonnat at Insecula

Leon Bonnat at The Athenaeum
2 works online by Bonnat

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Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)

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Salon Acquisitions in France by the Service des Beaux-Arts, 1864-1901 (in French)
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Pays basque, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, from the Salon of 1899

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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

La Tribune de l'Art (in French)
Paysage nocturne

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