Léon Bonnat
(1833–1922) fransk målare och etsare
Léon Bonnat (France, 1833–1922) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Léon Bonnat belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.
Léon Bonnat was born in Bayonne and died in Monchy-Saint-Éloi. Léon Bonnat trained at Beaux-Arts de Paris. The teachers included José de Madrazo y Agudo, Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, and Léon Cogniet. Léon Bonnat worked in Madrid, Paris, Rome, and Paris. Wikidata associates Léon Bonnat with academic art. Léon Bonnat became a member of Royal Academy of Arts, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Académie des beaux-arts. The awards include Prix de Rome, Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Grand cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso XII, and Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. The students included Henri Pailler, Peder Severin Krøyer, Robert Barnekow, and Hans Ole Brasen.
The best-known works include ‘Interior of the Sixtine chapel’, ‘Victor Hugo’, and ‘Portrait de Loulia Cahen d'Anvers’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait painting, animal painting, and genre painting. The catalogue has 98 works by Léon Bonnat with free images. The dated works span the years 1850–1950. Works by Léon Bonnat are held by several collections, among them Musée d’Orsay, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris, Walters Art Museum, and Musée Bonnat-Helleu. Wikidata links 18 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Viktor av Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Edward Burne-Jones, Antoine Vollon, Édouard Riou, and Zacharie Astruc.