Marshlands

Auguste-François Bonheur

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Auguste-François Bonheur traveled across France in the 1850s, sketching the geographic and ecological diversity of the countryside and identifying the regions by handwritten labels affixed to the sketches. Tiny holes in the corners of the sketches suggest that he pinned his sheets of paper to a board while sketching outside. The mottled brown ground at the left in his painting of Auvergne (1993.36) may indicate the harvesting of peat, a type of soil used as fuel, or earth disturbed by cattle hooves, either indicating the human effect on the landscape.

Caption

Auguste-François Bonheur Bordeaux, France, 1824–1884, Meudon, France. Marshlands, mid 1850s. Oil on paper, 6 1/2 × 12 3/16 in. (16.5 × 31 cm) frame: 9 1/2 × 15 × 2 in. (24.1 × 38.1 × 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Healy Purchase Fund B, 1993.123.3. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1993.123.3_SL1.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

European Art

Title

Marshlands

Date

mid 1850s

Geography

Place made: France

Medium

Oil on paper

Classification

Painting

Dimensions

6 1/2 × 12 3/16 in. (16.5 × 31 cm) frame: 9 1/2 × 15 × 2 in. (24.1 × 38.1 × 5.1 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower left: "A. Bonheur"

Inscriptions

Inscribed lower left on paper label: "Auvergne"

Credit Line

Healy Purchase Fund B

Accession Number

1993.123.3

Rights

No known copyright restrictions

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