View of a Field
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). View of a Field, early 1850s. Oil on paper, 6 5/8 × 12 5/16 in. (16.8 × 31.3 cm) frame: 9 1/2 × 15 1/2 × 2 in. (24.1 × 39.4 × 5.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Healy Purchase Fund B, 1993.123.2. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
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Gallery
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Artist
Title
View of a Field
Date
early 1850s
Geography
Place made: France
Medium
Oil on paper
Classification
Dimensions
6 5/8 × 12 5/16 in. (16.8 × 31.3 cm) frame: 9 1/2 × 15 1/2 × 2 in. (24.1 × 39.4 × 5.1 cm)
Signatures
Signed lower right: "A. Bonheur"
Inscriptions
Inscribed lower left on paper label: "pres Taleyran/Cantal"
Credit Line
Healy Purchase Fund B
Accession Number
1993.123.2
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