Léon Bonnat

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French artist art teacher human painter portrait painter

Léon Bonnat was a prominent 19th-century French painter and influential teacher known for his realist portraits and for mentoring many leading artists of his time.

Aliases (2)

James Tissot ×1
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat ×1

Statements (63)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French artist → art teacher → human → painter → portrait painter →
awardReceived	Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour →
burialPlace	Cimetière du Montparnasse →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1833-06-20 →
dateOfDeath	1922-09-08 →
educatedAt	Académie des Beaux-Arts → École des Beaux-Arts (Paris) →
employer	École des Beaux-Arts (Paris) →
era	19th century → early 20th century →
familyName	Bonnat →
fieldOfWork	painting → portrait painting →
genre	portrait → religious art →
givenName	Léon →
hasWorkInCollection	Louvre Museum → Metropolitan Museum of Art → Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne → Musée d'Orsay → National Gallery of Art, Washington →
influenced	Georges Braque → Gustave Caillebotte → Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec → Édouard Manet →
languageOfWorkOrName	French →
memberOf	Académie des Beaux-Arts → Institut de France →
movement	Realism →
name	Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat →
nationality	French →
notableFor	history paintings → realist portraits → religious paintings →
notableWork	Christ on the Cross → Job → Portrait of Adolphe Thiers → Portrait of Léon Gambetta → Portrait of Victor Hugo →
occupation	art teacher → painter → professor →
placeOfBirth	Bayonne → France → Pyrénées-Atlantiques →
placeOfDeath	France → Monchy-Saint-Éloi → Oise →
positionHeld	director of École des Beaux-Arts (Paris) → professor at École des Beaux-Arts (Paris) →
sexOrGender	male →
student	Alfred Philippe Roll NERFINISHED → Georges Braque → Gustave Caillebotte → Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec → John Singer Sargent → Thomas Eakins →
workLocation	Paris →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Atelier of Carolus-Duran → Louis Lamothe ("James Tissot") →	notableStudent
Charles Laval → John Singer Sargent →	studiedUnder
Léon Bonnat ("Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat") →	name
Louis Anquetin →	studentOf