ID: 700006231 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700006231	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Landscape with a Bare Tree and a Plowman (drawing (visual work); Léon Bonvin (French, 1834 - 1866) (French Artist); 1864; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 95.GA.87;)

Note: The drawing focuses on a bare tree in the right middle ground, with its web of branches drawn in extreme detail. As the landscape recedes, the eye takes in a diminutive plowman and a town in the distance. The pervasive stillness of the scene, created by the golden glow that backlights the tree, its wintry bareness, and the mistiness that enshrouds the background, conveys the sense that the time of day is sunset. Juxtaposed to a beautiful hazy expanse is the almost unnatural sharpness accorded to certain vegetal details, namely the wirey bush in the left foreground, and the gossamer branches of the tree. The sharpness, dreaminess, and interest in transitional times of the day point forward to photography, Symbolism, and Impressionism, while the association of the landscape with agrarian labor reveals the influence of the imagery of the Barbizon School.

Titles:

Landscape with a Bare Tree and a Plowman (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1864

Creator Display:

Léon Bonvin (French, 1834 - 1866) (French Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

Bonvin, Léon (French draftsman and watercolorist, 1834-1866) [500026027]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 95.GA.87

Other: Creation: France [1000070] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Pen and brown ink, watercolor, and gum arabic

	pens (drawing and writing implements) [300022452]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), equipment, <equipment by process>, image-making equipment, <equipment for drafting| drawing| and writing>, <drafting| drawing and writing equipment by specific type>)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	watercolor (paint) [300015045]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gum arabic [300012869]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, organic material, gum (material))

Dimensions: 18.1 x 16.2 cm (7 1/8 x 6 3/8 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

General Subject:

landscapes (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	farmers (people in agriculture) [300025607]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in agriculture or natural resource occupations>, <people in agriculture>) (AAT)

	landscape (environment) [300008626]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Inscriptions: (Verso) in brown ink "40.45"

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Landscape with a Bare Tree and a Plowman	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)