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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Bonvin's health was not good throughout 1875 and as a result he spent a great deal of time at home where he painted several still lifes. Here the combination of simple shapes placed on the edge of a table, against a stark, dark background and seen at eye level, show the continuing influence of Chardin's still lifes on the art of Bonvin. For Bonvin everything - even the simplest object - was a pretext for painting. In this still life we sense that Bonvin has chosen and combined his objects with care, for they have provided him with a wonderful excuse for playing with myriads of shades of white - the open pages of a book, a bundle of sheets of paper, an inkwell and the feathers of the two quill pens. | Subjects: | still life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bonvin, François (French painter and printmaker, 1817-1887) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8300... | Go to resource |
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