Thistle in front of a Winter Landscape

1864

Dating: Exact year
Held at: Walters Art Museum
Medium: watercolor with gum heightening, gouache, iron gall ink and pen, and graphite over graphite underdrawing on slightly textured, moderately thick, cream wove paper
Dimensions: H: 9 11/16 × W: 7 3/8 in. (24.6 × 18.7 cm); Framed H: 21 1/4 × W: 16 1/4 × D: 1 5/16 in. (53.98 × 41.28 × 3.33 cm)
Collection no.: 37.1519
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Léon Bonvin. Thistle in front of a Winter Landscape, 1864. The Walters Art Museum; Acquired by William T. Walters, 1864 (?). Inventory 37.1519. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://art.thewalters.org/object/37.1519/. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: Walters Art Museum

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Location checked Oct 4, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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