Cleveland Museum of Art

Head of a Woman (Mme. Deshayes?)

Louis-Marin Bonnet

Date

c. 1771

Medium

color chalk-manner etching and engraving

Culture

France, 18th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

To produce this print, Bonnet used three different printing plates to layer black ink, then semitransparent blue ink, and finally a thicker red pigment onto white paper. After the first run through the press, Bonnet had to carefully align each subsequent plate to achieve the desired coloration. Although the identity of this young woman is unknown, she may be Boucher’s daughter, Jean-Elisabeth Victoire, who married Jean-Baptiste Henri Deshays, a pupil of Boucher.

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