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La Soiree des Thuileries ( The Evening at Tuileries)
Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet (French, 1742-1813)LinkedCulture matchlcp-dbf761bf24d9
- Date
- 1774
- Medium
- Etching on cream laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 30227
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
The prolific reproductive printmaker Jean Baptiste Blaise Simonet frequently etched paintings by Pierre Antoine Baudouin. This frothy confection lacks Baudouin’s pastel colors and gauzy glazes, but substitutes an ethereal sense of moonlight. Two stylish lovers share a knowing glance—and a glimpse of skin—on a park bench partially concealed behind a monumental column. This early state of Simonet’s print lacks a title or signature, but the couple’s elegant meeting place is specified in the final state as the Tuileries Garden, near the Louvre, Paris.
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- Credit line
- Gift of the Print and Drawing Club
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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