Art Institute of Chicago
La Toilette de Venus (The Toilette of Venus)
Jean-François Janinet (French, 1752-1814)LinkedCulture matchlcp-087d7a4cfdea
- Date
- 1783
- Medium
- Color aquatint from four plates, crayon-manner, and etching on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 50174
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
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.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
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- Object type
- AAT300041273
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