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Léon Bonnat: 1833–1922
Other names (9)
Bonat, Bonnat, Joseph Florentin Léon Bonnat, Joseph Florentin Lïon Bonnat, Joseph Leon Bonnat, L. Bonnat, leon bonnat, Léon Joseph Bonnat, Léon-Joseph-Florentin Bonnat
Biography
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (French pronunciation: [leɔ̃ ʒozɛf flɔʁɑ̃tɛ̃ bɔna]; 20 June 1833 – 8 September 1922) was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, art collector 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 in 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.
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- Federico de Madrazo y Kuntzeditorial inference
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- Léon Cognieteditorial inference
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- Louis Anquetineditorial inference
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Léon Bonnat. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Musée d’Orsay14 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris11 recorded works
- Museo Nacional del Prado5 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art5 recorded works
- Walters Art Museum5 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art4 recorded works
- musée Condé — Chantilly3 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Dijon3 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon3 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art3 recorded works
- Musée Carnavalet2 recorded works
- musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg — Strasbourg2 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Bordeaux2 recorded works
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Pau2 recorded works
- Musée du Louvre2 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago1 recorded work
- maison de Victor Hugo — Paris1 recorded work
- MUDO - musée de l'Oise — Beauvais1 recorded work
- musée Bertrand — Châteauroux1 recorded work
- Musée de Grenoble1 recorded work
- musée de la musique — Paris1 recorded work
- musée de la Princerie — Verdun1 recorded work
- musée des arts décoratifs et du design — Bordeaux1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts Denys Puech — Rodez1 recorded work
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie — Troyes1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Marseille1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Rennes1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Tours1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts — Valenciennes1 recorded work
- musée des ursulines — Mâcon1 recorded work
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts1 recorded work
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- National Gallery of Art
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- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Museum authority country review
- musée des beaux-arts — Rouen
- musée d'Orsay — Paris
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)