Young Woman with a Mandolin, Portrait of Louison Köhler
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
Catalogue
- Year
- 1873
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 70.5 x 62.2 x 7.6 cm (27 3/4 x 24 1/2 x 3 in.); Unframed: 54.9 x 46 cm (21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Artist
- François Bonvin
Artist

Printmaking
François Bonvin was a French painter of interior scenes and still lifes working primarily in oil during the 19th century. He specialized in intimate domestic arrangements and modest household objects rendered with meticulous attention to light and material texture. Active from the 1840s onward, Bonvin developed a practice centered on the quiet dignity of everyday life, working in a realist tradition that positioned humble subject matter as worthy of sustained artistic attention.
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Record
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- François Bonvin
- Year
- 1873
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 70.5 x 62.2 x 7.6 cm (27 3/4 x 24 1/2 x 3 in.); Unframed: 54.9 x 46 cm (21 5/8 x 18 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1873-144693
Source
- Collection
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Source
- cleveland
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





