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"This auction catalogue notes that the sale consists of the \u201cSuccession de Madame C[outurier]\u2026et appartenant \u00e0 divers,\u201d which indicates that while the sale included the estate of Madame Couturier, it also contained the property of other, unnamed collectors. The catalogue does not specifiy the former owner of the Bonvin. There were a number of collectors and other art world figures by the name of Couturier active in Paris at this time, and further details of \u201cMadame Couturier\u2019s\u201d identity are unknown.
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"The gallery\u2019s archives record the purchase of the Bonvin at H\u00f4tel Drouot on October 5, 1976, and its sale to dealer Marianne Feilchenfeldt on August 27, 1976.
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"description": "Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art as a result of disclaimer by Muriel S. Butkin",
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"description": "A lute and flute rest on top of sheet music. This painting was intended to hang above a door, opposite still lifes that represented the other fine arts of painting and sculpture (the two related paintings are in the Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris). Bonvin was part of the 19th-century movement known as Realism. Led by Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), the Realist painters were interested in depicting the world that surrounded them, as well as the popular culture of their time.",
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