Le Réveil de Venus (Venus Awakening)

1769

Louis-Marin Bonnet after François Boucher

Associated Names
Louis-Marin Bonnet

Artist, French, 1736 - 1793

François Boucher

Artist After, French, 1703 - 1770

The image shows a woman reclining on a bed. She is partially covered with a light draped fabric, has a serene expression, and bright eyes. Her hair is styled with waves and a braided arrangement with flowers. She wears a headband of flowers and a garland around her hips. She holds a floral garland and a dove is perched on her thigh. The bedding beneath her is plush and the background features flowing fabric in shades of blue and gray.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession Number

    2010.125.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Herold 1935, no. 20, State ii/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

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: no. 20, ii/v

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q76557388

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