Lot n° 43
Estimation :
800 - 1200
EUR
ACHILLE BONNUIT 1833-1906 Staircase, ca.1865. Photograph. Al - Lot 43
ACHILLE BONNUIT 1833-1906 Staircase, ca.1865. Photograph. Albumen print mounted on card. Image: 14.3 x 10.9 cm; mount: 22.9 x 17.6 cm A gilder and decorator, Achille Bonnuit (1833-1906) joined the Manufacture de Sèvres in 1858. He took advantage of the artistic effervescence that reigned there to produce clichés, often in collaboration with his father-in-law Derischweiler. He produced tableaux vivants, still lifes and delicately rendered garden views, such as this composition of baskets filled with chestnuts, which he enhanced with a white cloth placed on the chair as a painter would deposit pigment, or the skilful use of lines through the serpentine curve of a staircase.
The Musée d'Orsay holds other prints by Bonnuit (PHO 1984 70).
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