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Léon Bonnat - Etude pour La Jeunesse de Samson

Etude pour La Jeunesse de Samson

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
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Léon Bonnat

Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.

Bonnat was born in Bayonne, but from 1846 to 1853 he lived in Madrid, where his father owned a bookshop. While tending his father's shop, he copied engravings of works by the Old Masters, developing a passion for drawing. In Madrid he received his artistic training under Madrazo. He later worked in Paris, where he became known as a leading portraitist, never without a commission. His many portraits show the influence of Velázquez, Jusepe de Ribera and other Spanish masters, as well as Titian and Van Dyke, whose works he studied in the Prado, which placed him at the forefront of painting in France in the 1850s, opposing neoclassicism and academicism. Following the period in Spain, Bonnat worked the studios of the history painters Paul Delaroche and Leon Cogniet (1854) in Paris.

Despite repeated attempts, he failed to win the prix de Rome, finally receiving only a second prize. However, a scholarship from his native Bayonne and support from the Personnaz family allowed him to spend three years in Rome (1858–60) independently where he and Antonin Personnaz became lifetime friends. During his stay in Rome, he also became friends with Edgar Degas, Gustave Moreau, Jean-Jacques Henner and the sculptor Henri Chapu.

Bonnat won a medal of honour in Paris in 1869, going on to become one of the leading artists of his day. Bonnat went on to win the Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur and became a professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1882. Bonnat was quite popular with American students in Paris. In addition to his native French, he spoke Spanish and Italian and knew English well, to the relief of many monolingual Americans. In May 1905 he succeeded Paul Dubois as director of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Julius Kaplan characterised Bonnat as "a liberal teacher who stressed simplicity in art above high academic finish, as well as overall effect rather than detail." Bonnat's emphasis on overall effect on the one hand, and rigorous drawing on the other, put him in a middle position with respect to the Impressionists and academic painters like his friend Jean-Léon Gérôme. In 1917, Bonnat was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Corresponding member.

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A little accident

A little accident

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
Samson’s Youth

Samson’s Youth (1891)

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child

An Egyptian Peasant Woman and Her Child (1869 - 1870)

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
Victor Hugo sur son lit de mort

Victor Hugo sur son lit de mort (1885)

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
La Lutte de Jacob (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)

La Lutte de Jacob (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel) (1876)

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
Fidès Devriès

Fidès Devriès (1887)

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
Paysage – orée d’un bois

Paysage – orée d’un bois (1935 - 1923)

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
Portrait de l’artiste

Portrait de l’artiste (1860)

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
Portrait of Barye with a Wax Model of ‘Seated Lion’

Portrait of Barye with a Wax Model of ‘Seated Lion’ (1885)

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
Deux hommes nus luttant (copie d’un fragment de fresque par Luca Signorelli)

Deux hommes nus luttant (copie d’un fragment de fresque par Luca Signorelli) (19th century)

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
El pintor Ceferino Araujo Sánchez

El pintor Ceferino Araujo Sánchez (1864)

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
Portrait d’homme

Portrait d’homme

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
Madame Pasca

Madame Pasca (1874)

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
Italian Woman

Italian Woman (mid 1860s)

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
L’italienne

L’italienne (1869)

Léon Bonnat (French, 1833-1922)
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