Les Échasses

c. 1790

Louis-Marin Bonnet after Jean-Baptiste Hüet, I

Associated Names
Louis-Marin Bonnet

Artist, French, 1736 - 1793

Jean-Baptiste Hüet

Artist After, French, 1745 - 1811

The image shows two children outdoors. One child, a girl, stands upright while appearing to support the other child, a boy, who is balanced on stilts. The girl has long, wavy hair with a headband, and wears a long dress with long sleeves and a blue sash. She is holding one of the boy’s hands. The boy has short, curly hair and wears a red coat over a white outfit with knickerbockers, knee-high socks, and shoes. He is on wooden stilts. In the background, there are trees on the left and lush shrubbery with potted roses on the right.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color stipple engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of A. Thompson Ellwanger III

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 16.9 x 19.4 cm (6 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2000.175.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Herold 1935, no. 1016, State ii/iii

  • Series Title

    Jeux des Enfants

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

A. Thompson Ellwanger III; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

lower left below image in plate: J.B. Huet delineavit; lower right below image in plate: Bonnet direxit; lower center below image in plate: Les Echasses;

Wikidata ID

Q76347735

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