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Attributes of Music
1863
(French, 1817–1887)
Unframed: 62.6 x 116 cm (24 5/8 x 45 11/16 in.)
Bequest of Noah L. Butkin 1980.233
Location: not on view
Description
A lute and flute rest on top of sheet music. This painting was intended to hang above a door, opposite still lifes that represented the other fine arts of painting and sculpture (the two related paintings are in the Musée du Louvre, Paris). Bonvin was part of the 19th-century movement known as Realism. Led by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), the Realist painters were interested in depicting the world that surrounded them, as well as the popular culture of their time.- 1976(Couturier sale, Hôtel Drouot, March 19, 1976 (lot 42), sold to Galerie Brame and Lorenceau)1976(Galerie Brame and Lorenceau, Paris, sold to Marianne Feilchenfeldt)1976-1977(Marianne Feilchenfeldt, Zürich, sold to Noah L. Butkin)1977-1980Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art as a result of disclaimer by Muriel S. Butkin1980-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHProvenance Footnotes1 This auction catalogue notes that the sale consists of the “Succession de Madame C[outurier]…et appartenant à divers,” which indicates that while the sale included the estate of Madame Couturier, it also contained the property of other, unnamed collectors. The catalogue does not specifiy the former owner of the Bonvin. There were a number of collectors and other art world figures by the name of Couturier active in Paris at this time, and further details of “Madame Couturier’s” identity are unknown.2 The gallery’s archives record the purchase of the Bonvin at Hôtel Drouot on October 5, 1976, and its sale to dealer Marianne Feilchenfeldt on August 27, 1976.
- Estate of Noah L. Butkin, Bequests to Cleveland Museum of Art as a result of disclaimer by Murel S. Butkin. Estates, Gifts, and Funds, Series 1, Box 2:14. Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.Marianne Feilchenfeldt, letter to Sherman Lee, July 30, 1977, in CMA curatorial file.Marianne Feilchenfeldt, invoice, Sept. 5, 1977, in CMA curatorial file.Sylvie Brame, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 29, 2015, in CMA curatorial file.Weisberg, Gabriel P., and François Bonvin. Bonvin. Paris: Éditions Geoffroy-Dechaume, 1979.Snite Museum of Art, and Gabriel P. Weisberg. Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art. 2012.Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux modernes. 1976.Sylvie Brame, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 29, 2015, in CMA curatorial file.Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 57-58, Vol. I, no. 21
- Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of the Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art. Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN (organizer) (September 2-December 2, 2012).Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN (8/26/2012 - 11/15/2012): "Breaking the Mold: The Legacy of Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Art", ex. cat. no. 10, p. 50-51.Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 14-June 11, 1989).The Magic of Still Life. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 4, 1986-February 1, 1987).Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).CMA. Chardin and the Still-life Tradition in France (1979), 89, no. 10.
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