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BONINGTON, Richard Parkes

Arnold (Nottinghamshire), 1802 - London, 1828

Jeune homme assis, en manches de chemise, sur la berge d'un ruisseau, probablement PIerre-Julien Gaudefroy Portrait of a man in a landscape, possibly PIerre-Julien Gaudefroy

1820

Watercolour over graphite

H. 0.22 m; W. 0.16 m

Signed and dates (lower right): RPB 1820

Bayonne, musée Bonnat

N.I. 1.337 - A.I. 1.569

Works on paper

Comes possibly from Auguste-Joseph Carrier (18020-1875), by 1867.

19th century

Comments

This is possibly the watercolor upon which Théophile Thoré remarked:"M. Carrier still owns another charming portrait, painted in watercolors, by Bonington, that of their fellow student, M. Godefroy, seated on a small rise in a clear landscape." Bonington, Auguste-Josph Carrier and Pierre-Julien Gaudefroy were fellow students under Baron Antoine-Jean Gros. A watercolor sketch has been identified on occasion as another portrait of Gaudefroy.

Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, The complete paintings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008, p.337, n°s274 et 275.

Bibliography

Cat. Dessins et peintures des Ecoles du Nord, XVIème exposition temporaire, avril-septembre 1975, Bayonne, 1975, n°5.

Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, The complete paintings, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2008, p.337, fig.274.