Bather

Prints and Drawings

1768

Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793)
after François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)

In this print, Louis-Marin Bonnet used chalk-manner engraving to reproduce the soft contours of a nude by François Boucher. An 18th-century invention, chalk- or crayon-manner engravings were made with roulette wheels that rolled dotted patterns onto copper plates and mimicked the line of chalk or pastel. Here Bonnet printed two separate chalk-manner plates in black and white inks on blue paper to give the impression of a carefully worked drawing.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Louis-Marin Bonnet
Title: Bather
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1768
Medium: Crayon-manner engraving in black and white on blue laid paper
Dimensions: 35.7 × 23.2 cm (14 1/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Woods Fund
Reference Number: 1985.955
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