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Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat was a French painter, Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, art collector and professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
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culture · French painter and educator (1833–1922) · painter · printmaker · art collector · visual artist · also Léon Bonnat, Joseph Florentin Léon Bonnat, Léon-Joseph-Florentin Bonnat, Joseph Florentin Leon Bonnat, Joseph Florentin Lïon Bonnat, Leon Joseph Florentin Bonnat
Born 20 June 1833 · Died 8 September 1922 · Q170259
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“We wonder why Velázquez's infant has fake shoulders and why the head doesn't join properly...And how good it looks. While a head by Bonnat joins actual shoulders...And how bad it looks!”
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Died 1922-09-08.
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Awarded Grand cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso XII (1918).
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Bonnat was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Corresponding member
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Going on to become one of the leading artists of his day
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Awarded Prix de Rome (1857).
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Born 1833-06-20.
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