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SHONBORN, John Lewis

Oxford, Iowa, 1852 - Gien, Somme, France, 1931

Deux enfants sur un âne
Two children on a donkey

M.P.P. 2072-677 bis

vers 1910

Oil on canvas

H: 0, 685 m.; W: 0, 563 m.

Amiens, Musée de Picardie

Signed lower right: L. J. Shonborn

Painting

From 1865 to 1900

Historical

Legacy of Edmond Soyer, president of the Société des antiquires de Picardie.
Delivered before 1918.

Comment

After he had lived in England, Schonborn painted many genre scenes such as this one. His paintings frequently evoke the everyday life of children in picturesque situations. The artist, a noted lover of horses, made many sketches of that animal which are echoed here, in the donkey's anatomy. (Source: records of the Musée de la Picardie, Amiens)

Bibliography

Elisabeth Cazenave, L'Afrique du Nord révélée par les Musées de province, Bernard Giovanangeli éditeur, Association Abdel-El-Tif, Paris 2004, n°241, p. 130.