Bust of a Young Woman Looking Down

1773 or later

Louis-Marin Bonnet

Artist, French, 1736 - 1793

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in black and red on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips, in memory of Neil Phillips

  • Dimensions

    plate: 30.9 x 23.2 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
    overall (2nd framing line): 23.5 x 16.6 cm (9 1/4 x 6 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2003.12.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Herold 1935, no. 9, State iv/iv


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(André Candillier, Paris); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 9b.

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. 9b.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: F. Boucher fecit; lower right in plate: L. Bonnet sculp. en 1767; lower center in plate: Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. de Selle Trésorier Général de la Marine / à Paris chés la Veuve Chereau rue St Jacques aux 2 Pilliers d'Or / et chés Bonnet rue St. Jacques

Wikidata ID

Q76347739


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