Marie-Rosalie Vanloo

c. 1764

Louis-Marin Bonnet after Carle Van Loo

Associated Names
Louis-Marin Bonnet

Artist, French, 1736 - 1793

Carle Van Loo

Artist After, French, 1705 - 1765

The drawing depicts a young girl in a side profile from the shoulders up. She is facing left, looking forward with delicate facial features, including a soft, rounded forehead and a small nose. Her hair is styled in a detailed, voluminous manner, appearing curly and falling in waves at the back of her head. She wears an ornate dress with an intricate design around the shoulders and neckline. The background is a plain, textured surface.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in black and white on gray-brown paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 40 x 30.2 cm (15 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.)
    image: 35.5 x 28.9 cm (14 x 11 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1996.15.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Herold 1935, no. 55, State (A) ii/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté S.A), Paris; purchased 1996 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1997

  • Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 15.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 8a, as Marie-Rosalie Vanloo by Louis-Marin Bonnet after Carle Vanloo.

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. 8a.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Dessiné par Carle Vanloo / A Paris, chez Bonnet, Pont St. Michel, aux Armes / de France, vis-a-vis la rue du Hurpoix; lower center in plate: DEDIÉE A MONSIEUR CARLE VANLOO; lower right in plate: Carle Vanloo / Gravé par Louis Bonnet / Par son tres-humble, et tres- / obeissant, serviteur, Louis Bonnet.

Wikidata ID

Q75394940

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