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| Keywords: Léon Bonvin - Cook with Red Apron - Walters 371505.jpg In this scene a cook wearing a vermilion apron is chopping a large cabbage Commonplace vegetables are strewn in front of her including turnips leeks celery roots carrots and lettuce The model has been identified as the artist's wife Constance F�licit� Gaudon and the location as the family's small tavern in Vaugirard Light from a window at the right penetrates the scene to reveal details in the background including the hanging basket and the shelf with a row of candlesticks a coffee mill and a lantern Placed on the stove is a large glimmering copper pot 1862 watercolor gouache pen and iron gall ink heightened with gum varnish over graphite underdrawing on cream moderately thick moderately textured laid paper cm 20 8 16 2 accession number 37 1505 3154 William T Walters Baltimore December 1 1862 by purchase from the artist with George A Lucas as agent Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters 1862 Signature and date Brown ink lower left Léon Bonvin 62; Number Graphite verso C2 The Essence of Line A Baltimorean in Paris George A Lucas 1860-1909 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1979 The Drawings and Watercolors of Léon Bonvin The Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland; The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1980-1981 A Connoisseur's Portfolio A Vanishing Meadow The Watercolors of Léon Bonvin The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1994 Léon Bonvin 1834-1866 Government House Annapolis 1997 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D A Connoisseur's Portfolio The Essence of Line Paintings by Léon Bonvin in the Walters Art Museum Aprons in art | ||||
