The Indiscretion

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The Indiscretion

Jean François JaninetLinkedCulture matchlcp-2e7c298cb05d

Date
1788
Medium
Color wash-manner engraving and etching
Culture
France, 18th century
Department
Prints
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
161928

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The Indiscretion is from a suite of three scenes of women sharing secrets in the privacy of their boudoirs. The woman wearing a decadent hat has taken a love letter from the girl in white, who pleads with her older companion to give it back. Janinet refined the tools used in chalk-manner printmaking to create wash-manner etchings and engravings that imitate opaque watercolors, such as The Lover’s Visit and The Surprised Lovers on view nearby.

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Credit line
John L. Severance Fund
Provenance
Cortland F. Bishop (Lugt Supplement 2770b); [American Art Association/ Anderson Galleries, 1935, lot 103, illustrated, p. 67]

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