influence of seventeenth-century painters and Goya, towards a more modern freedom of execution, scratching the brush and using the spatula, as well as a more colorful color gamut, as can be seen in his Self-portrait of the Prado Museum. In a gesture of gratitude for the help he had been provided in his youth and with the assistance of Antonin Personnaz, Bonnat built a museum in his native city of Bayonne, the Musée Bonnat. Most of the works in the museum are from the personal collections of Bonnat and Personnaz of works of art, amassed over a lifetime of travelling around Europe. It includes an exceptionally fine collection of Old Master drawings from Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to Ingres and Géricault. Bonnat died on 8 September 1922 at Monchy-Saint-Éloi, and was buried at the Cimitiére Saint-Etienne, Bayonne. Personal life Bonnat never married, and lived for much of his life with his mother and sister in the Place Vintimille (renamed Place Adolphe-Max in 1940). Honours 1904: Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. Criticisms "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!" – Paul Gauguin (from Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter Publication 2017, David Zwirner Books) Gallery See also Musée Bonnat References Footnotes 1833 births 1922 deaths People from Bayonne 19th-century French painters 19th-century French male artists French male painters French Roman Catholics 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists French portrait painters Academic art Prix de Rome for painting Academic staff of the École des Beaux-Arts Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium Honorary Members of the Royal Academy Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class)