Up from the Cellar (La sortie de la cave), 1857
François Bonvinexpand_more
Oil on canvasexpand_more
Gift of Gabriel P. and Yvonne M.L. Weisberg in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Minneapolis Institute of Artexpand_more 2015.83.1
Not on Viewexpand_more
François Bonvin’s paintings, drawings, and prints often depicted women doing chores. We see them pouring water from pitchers, cutting bread for the family meal, ironing, or, as in this painting, fetching a container of wine. The setting is likely one Bonvin knew by heart: the background resembles the inn owned by his father in Vaugirard, just outside Paris.
A dedicated realist, Bonvin found his models in the world around him. Picturing the small, routine moments of workaday life was not unusual among nineteenth-century artists, linking them to their Dutch forebears in the 1600s, who likewise favored heightened realism and themes of familiar daily activity.
Details
- Title
- Up from the Cellar (La sortie de la cave)
- Artist Life
- Paris 1817–Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1887
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.83.1
- Provenance
- [Cottier and Co., New York]; [Victor G. Fischer Art Company of Washington, D.C., until 1912; (sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, February 19–23, 1912, no. 349, for $375)]; Howard J. Jackman, 1924; Richard S. Schneiderman, until 1970; [possibly Wheelock Whitney Gallery, New York]; to Gabriel and Yvonne Weisberg, Minneapolis (until 2015; given to Mia)
- Curator Approved
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