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The Indiscretion

1788
(French, 1752–1814)
(Swedish)
France, 18th century
Color wash-manner engraving and etching
Support: Laid paper with watermark
Sheet: 57.6 x 43 cm (22 11/16 x 16 15/16 in.); Platemark: 48.3 x 36.2 cm (19 x 14 1/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2001.18
Catalogue raisonné: Portalis and Béraldi 41, Bocher 30 (Inventaire du Fonds Français 28, state III/IV)
State: II/III
Location: not on view
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Description

The Indiscretion is from a suite of three scenes of women sharing secrets in the privacy of their boudoirs. The woman wearing a decadent hat has taken a love letter from the girl in white, who pleads with her older companion to give it back. Janinet refined the tools used in chalk-manner printmaking to create wash-manner etchings and engravings that imitate opaque watercolors, such as The Lover’s Visit and The Surprised Lovers on view nearby.
The Indiscretion

The Indiscretion

1788

Jean François Janinet, Nicolas Lavreince

(French, 1752–1814), (Swedish)
France, 18th century

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