Le Déluge Universel

after 1783

Jacques Bonnefoy after Michel Honoré Bounieu

Associated Names
Jacques Bonnefoy

Artist, French, active late 18th century

Michel Honoré Bounieu

Artist After, French, 1740 - 1814

The image depicts three individuals: a man, a woman, and a child. The man is standing on a rock in the sea, covering his eyes with his right arm. He has dark, tousled hair. The woman is seated on the rock, draped in a white cloth, holding the child close to her chest. The child, also wrapped in a cloth, is young. Waves lap against the rock. In the background, one person is emerging from the water. The scene includes a vast sea under a cloudy sky, with a small boat on the horizon.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mrs. George Levitine, Silver Spring, MD; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1984

  • Levitine, George. "Le Déluge oublié de Michel-Honoré Bounieu." Gazette des Beaux-Arts (January 1984): 44-50.

Inscriptions

across bottom in plate: Peint par Bougnu / Gravé par Bonnefoy / LE DÉLUGE UNIVERSEL

Wikidata ID

Q75126067

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