Detail of Roman Girl at a Fountain by Bonnat in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2009

Artist: Léon Bonnat (French, 1833–1922)

Title: Roman Girl at a Fountain

Date: 1875

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 67 x 39 1/2 in. (170.2 x 100.3 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Bequest of Catharine Lorillard Wolfe, 1887

Accession Number: 87.15.137

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Bonnat, the fashionable French portraitist of the last third of the nineteenth century, probably agreed to paint this genre scene for the New York collector Catharine Lorillard Wolfe about 1873. It was delivered to her Madison Avenue home two years later, where it hung in her library, along with Cabanel's three-quarter-length portrait of Wolfe herself (on view in the Museum's 19th-century galleries), which was painted the following year. In October 1885, soon before she died, Wolfe moved "Roman Girl at a Fountain" to a specially constructed niche in her dining room.

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