Art Institute of Chicago
Bather
Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793)LinkedCulture matchlcp-1239d38c745f
- Date
- 1768
- Medium
- Crayon-manner in black and white on blue laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 104903
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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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- Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Woods Fund
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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