Léon Bonvin
Landscape with a Farmhouse and a Peasant Wheeling a Barrow

Landscape with a Farmhouse and a Peasant Wheeling a Barrow

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Landscape with a Farmhouse and a Peasant Wheeling a Barrow
ArtistFrench, 1834–1866
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Landscape with a Farmhouse and a Peasant Wheeling a Barrow
Date1865
PlaceFrance
MediumWatercolor heightened with gouache, pen and sepia-toned ink over graphite with stumping on wove paper
Dimensions6 × 7 7/8 inches (15.3 × 20 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Houston Alumnae Chapter of Delta Delta Delta Sorority
Object number96.729
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Landscape Imagery in Works on Paper," the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 24, 2004 - September 19, 2004

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