A Nun Seated at a Table Knitting
François Bonvin (French
Drawing · gouache and watercolor
A Nun Seated at a Table Knitting, 1862. François Bonvin (French, 1817–1887). Gouache and watercolor; sheet: 21.3 x 17.2 cm (8 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.399
Descent of A Nun Seated at a Table Knitting
Annotations from the network
Footnote-style observations from other contributors, folded into the layer's margins. Visible, but quiet.
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Note how the Prussian blue sits in the wave's trough versus its crest — later Hokusai impressions stabilize this gradient, but early pulls like this one still feel like the pigment is being tested against the page.
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The cover of Debussy's 1905 Durand edition of La Mer reproduces this print at the composer's request. A cross-medium lineage worth branching into its own layer.
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Cross-impression XRF of this series (see descendant analysis) supports distinct pulls over the run — not a single uniform batch, but a recarved block drifting as it wore.