Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793)
after François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
Bather
INV-1049
Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793)
after François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)1768
etchingprint
Date
1768
Medium
Crayon-manner in black and white on blue laid paper
Dimensions
35.7 × 23.2 cm (14 1/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Woods Fund
In this print, Louis-Marin Bonnet used chalk-manner engraving to reproduce the soft contours of a nude by François Boucher. An 18th-century invention, chalk- or crayon-manner engravings were made with roulette wheels that rolled dotted patterns onto copper plates and mimicked the line of chalk or pastel. Here Bonnet printed two separate chalk-manner plates in black and white inks on blue paper to give the impression of a carefully worked drawing.
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