Cleveland Museum of Art

Young Woman Seated on a Bed

Louis-Marin Bonnet

Date

before 1764

Medium

chalk manner etching and engraving printed in red

Culture

France, 18th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Although this scene of a nude woman lounging in her bedchamber appears to be drawn with red chalk like the drawings by Greuze and Boucher nearby, it is actually a printed image. Chalk-manner etchings and engravings are made using special punches and rollers with teeth of various sizes set at irregular intervals to re-create the natural granular effects of chalk lines drawn on textured paper.

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