Art Institute of Chicago
The First Whisper of Love
John Douglas Miller (English, 1860-1903)
- Date
- c. 1889
- Medium
- Watercolor on ivory wove paper
- Culture
- England
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
John Douglas Miller was a skilled mezzotint engraver who reproduced Renaissance-era and contemporary works with a painterly touch. This rare, pristine intermediary model drawing was made by Miller after William Bouguereau’s small-scale studio version of his painting The First Whisper of Love . Artists and printmakers relied heavily on these drawings during the process of designing prints and often destroyed them afterward.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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