Cleveland Museum of Art
The Indiscretion
Jean François Janinet
- Date
- 1788
- Medium
- Color wash-manner engraving and etching
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
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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