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Bust of a Woman in a Bonnet by Bonnifay in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2011

Bust of a Woman in a Bonnet by Bonnifay in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2011
Title: Woman in a Bonnet

Artist: Paul-Auguste-Sylvaire Bonnifay (French, Toulon 1814–1885 Toulon)

Date: 1841

Culture: French, Toulon

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: Height: 15 in. (38.1 cm)

Classification: Sculpture

Credit Line: Purchase, Rogers Fund, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, by exchange, Gift of Ogden Mills, by exchange, Funds from Various Donors, 1988

Object Number: 1988.122

This portrait bust, with its emphasis on neatness and order, embodies bourgeois respectability.


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/207749

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