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Portrait of Léon Bonnat

Maker

Frédéric Laguillermie (artist)
1841-1934

Title

Date of Production

1880

Dimensions

Height: 30.4 cm (sheet)
Width: 21.6 cm (sheet)

Accession Number

G.2017.XX.3

Mode of Acquisition

Donato Esposito, gift, 2017

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Léon Bonnat (1833-1922), born in Bayonne and trained in Madrid by Raimundo de Madrazo and in Paris by Léon Cogniet, was one of the leading portraitists working in Paris in the second half of the nineteenth century and a professor at and, eventually, director of, the École des Beaux-Arts (from 1905). This fine portrait miniature was made by Frédéric Auguste Laguillermie (1841-1934), one of the founding members of the Société des Aquafortistes (a group which spearheaded the etching revival in Paris in the 1860s) and a printmaker who specialised in reproductive etching and illustration.

Provenance

Christian Collin (b. 1963), Paris, from whom bought by Donato Esposito in June 2009.

Inscriptions

Inscription: card aperture remnant of mount, handwritten in pencil : Leon Bonnat /Eau forte originale de Frederic Laguillermie / (lan 1841 - ?)

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