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Louis-Marin Bonnet after François Boucher

The Awakening of Venus, 1769

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Medium

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

Dimensions

sheet: 31.2 x 39.3 cm (12 5/16 x 15 1/2 in.)
image: 28.1 x 38.2 cm (11 1/16 x 15 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Katharine Shepard Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Herold 1935, no. 20, State i/v

Accession Number

1998.63.1

Artists / Makers

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

François Boucher (artist after) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 92/712/2

Provenance

(André Candillier, Paris); purchased 1998 by NGA.

Associated Names

Candillier, André, M.

Exhibition History

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 18, as The Awakening of Venus 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. 18.

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