Thistles and Weeds

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
5/15/1972	Treatment	re-housed
1/01/2002	Treatment	examined for loan; re-housed; mounted; other

Exhibitions

• From Delacroix to Cézanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century. Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park; Speed Art Museum, Louisville; The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor. 1977-1978.
• The Drawings and Watercolors of Léon Bonvin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1980-1981.
• Millet and His Barbizon Contemporaries. Keio Department Store, Tokyo. 1985.
• A Vanishing Meadow: The Watercolors of Léon Bonvin. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1994.
• Parallels and Precedents: Baltimore's George A. Lucas Collection. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore. 1995.
• Léon Bonvin (1834-1866). Government House, Annapolis. 1997.
• The Road to Impressionism: Landscapes from Corot to Manet. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2004-2005.
• The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma. 2005-2006.

Provenance William T. Walters, Baltimore, before 1885 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Signature and date] In black ink, lower left: Léon Bonvin 1864; [Number] In graphite, center, verso: 1; [Number] In graphite, right of center, verso: 21; [Number] In graphite, lower left, corner, verso: 14; [Number] Traces of erased graphite, right lower edge, verso: 304

Credit Acquired by William T. Walters, before 1885