Léon BONVIN (Vaugirard 1834 - Meudon 1866) - Lot 150

Léon BONVIN (Vaugirard 1834 - Meudon 1866) Mouse caught in a trap Watercolor and white gouache highlights 10.7 x 15.5 cm Signed lower right Dedicated on verso in pen and black ink: "A mon petit? Ass...?/ M.D.his admirer C.Bonvin 1880" (Probably for Constance Bonvin, 1842-1907, wife of Léon Bonvin) Half-brother of realist painter François Bonvin (1817-1887), Léon Bonvin was shy and introverted. shy and introverted, he was never able to devote himself fully to his art, forced by his father to serve in the family inn. family inn. A faithful observer, he reproduced in charcoal or watercolor the fields and flowers and flowers around him, and paints marvellous, meticulously detailed still lifes in watercolour. meticulousness. His output remains relatively small compared to that of François, and is concentrated in three in three institutions: the Musée d'Orsay, the Fondation Custodia and, above all, the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. We would like to thank Madame Maud Guichané, who kindly confirmed the attribution on photograph. photograph. Expert : Cabinet de Bayser