Le Réveil de Venus (Venus Rising), 1769

Not on View

Medium

pastel manner printed in black, red, blue, white, and yellow-brown on blue laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 32.5 x 39.8 cm (12 13/16 x 15 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Herold 1935, no. 20, State ii/v

Accession Number

2010.125.1

Artists / Makers

Louis-Marin Bonnet (artist) French, 1736 - 1793

François Boucher (artist after) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: LE REVEIL DE VENUS. / Dédié à Madame la Marquise De Langeae / A Paris, chez Bonnet, rue Callande, près la Place Maubert, entre un Chandelie et un Lavatier; lower left in plate: F Boucher del.; lower right in plate: L. Bonnet sculp / par son humble et très obeissant serviteur Bonnet; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 464019

Provenance

(sale, Swann , New York, 28 October 2010, no. 262); (via C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2010 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.

Bibliography

1935: Herold, Jacques. Louis-Marin Bonnet (1735-1793): Catalogue de l'oeuvre grave. Paris: La Societe pour l'etude de la gravure Francaise, 1935: no. 20, ii/v