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Young Woman Seated on a Bed

before 1764
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Louis-Marin Bonnet

(French, 1736–1793)

after François Boucher

(French, 1703–1770)
Culture
France, 18th century
Medium
chalk manner etching and engraving printed in red
Support
Medium weight French laid paper with proprietary watermark
Measurements
Sheet: 46.9 x 33.1 cm (18 7/16 x 13 1/16 in.); Platemark: 44.2 x 30.6 cm (17 3/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
James Parmelee Fund 2009.16
Catalogue raisonné
Hérold 13
State
I/III
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Although this scene of a nude woman lounging in her bedchamber appears to be drawn with red chalk like the drawings by Greuze and Boucher nearby, it is actually a printed image. Chalk-manner etchings and engravings are made using special punches and rollers with teeth of various sizes set at irregular intervals to re-create the natural granular effects of chalk lines drawn on textured paper.
A vertically oriented print in red ink depicts a woman with light skin tone sitting on a bed, facing right while holding a garment. To her left, another woman with light skin tone peers from behind a draped curtain. A cat rests on the floor in the lower right. Below the central image, a coat of arms and printed text appear in the margin, all enclosed within a rectangular border.

Young Woman Seated on a Bed

before 1764

Louis-Marin Bonnet, François Boucher

(French, 1736–1793), (French, 1703–1770)
France, 18th century

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