Art Institute of Chicago
Marie Antoinette
Jean-François Janinet (French, 1752-1814)
- Date
- 1777
- Medium
- Etching and engraving printed on two sheets as follows: oval portrait in wash manner on full sheet in yellow, blue, red, and black from four plates; decorative frame cut out in center, in blue and orange from two plates
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Very probably this rare print never appeared in a large edition not only because of the complicated procedure involved in its making, but also because the process was illegally borrowed from Jacques Fabien Gautier Dagoty, who received a royal license for the technique.
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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