Tête de Flore (Head of Flora)

1769

Louis-Marin Bonnet

Artist, French, 1736 - 1793

Louis-Marin Bonnet after François Boucher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pastel manner printed in red, green, yellow, blue-green, light blue, bright blue, black, tan, brown, white, and pink

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 41.8 x 33.6 cm (16 7/16 x 13 1/4 in.)
    overall (2nd framing line): 40.9 x 32.7 cm (16 1/8 x 12 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.21.48

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Herold 1935, no. 192, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1962

  • Color in Prints: an Exhibition of European and American Color Prints from 1500 to the Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1962-1963, no.41.

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 107.

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 19, as Tête de Flore (Head of Flora) by Louis-Marin Bonnet after François Boucher.

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.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 19.

Inscriptions

in plate, at lower left: Bonnet 1769

Wikidata ID

Q65080670

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