Jean-François Janinet (French, 1752-1814)
after François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
La Toilette de Venus (The Toilette of Venus)
INV-5017
Jean-François Janinet (French, 1752-1814)
after François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)1783
La Toilette de Venus (The Toilette of Venus)
Jean-François Janinet (French, 1752-1814) after François Boucher (French, 1703-1770) →etchingprint
Date
1783
Medium
Color aquatint from four plates, crayon-manner, and etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 44.6 × 39.1 cm (17 9/16 × 15 7/16 in.); Sheet: 59.4 × 45.9 cm (23 7/16 × 18 1/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Clarence Buckingham Collection
One of Jean François Janinet's most ambitious productions, this carefully wrought print reproduces at one-third size a painting by François Boucher made in 1751 for his most important patron, the Marquise de Pompadour. The painting hung in the bathroom of the marquise's château at Bellevue and was sold after her death in 1764, probably to Jean François Chereau, the publisher of this elaborate print.