Bust of a Young Woman Looking Down, 1765/1767

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Medium

chalk manner printed in black, red, and white on blue paper

Dimensions

plate: 31 x 23.2 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
overall (second framing line): 23.7 x 16.7 cm (9 5/16 x 6 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Herold 1935, no. 9, State i/iv (proof)

Accession Number

1995.47.72

Artists / Makers

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

François Boucher (artist after) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

across bottom plate: Premiere Estampe aux trois Crayons d'après le dessein de M.r Boucher / premier Peintre du Roy. Gravé par Louis Bonnet le seul qui possede le / secret d'Imprimer les blancs tire du Cabinet de M.r de la Garégade, / Thresaurier Général de la Marine. / a Paris chés la Veuve Chereau rue St. Jacques aux 2. Pilliers d'Or. / et chés Bonnet rue Gallante la porte Cochere entre un Chandellier et un Lectier vis-a-vis la rue du Fouar; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: c.8581; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: B.3935

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

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. 9a, as Bust of a Young Woman Looking Down 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. 9a.