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Louis-Marin Bonnet after François Boucher

Tête de Flore (Head of Flora), 1769

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Medium

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

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.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Herold 1935, no. 192, State i/ii

Accession Number

1946.21.48

Artists / Makers

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

François Boucher (artist after) French, 1703 - 1770

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Inscription

in plate, at lower left: Bonnet 1769

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.

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.

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