About this artwork
Louis-Marin Bonnet’s color-printing repertoire included these variations on the fashionable pastel portrait genre. Softly layering multiple chalk-manner plates in colored inks, he completed the images with gold-leaf-accented frames. As the use of gold leaf was strictly regulated in France, Bonnet created an elaborate ruse: the English titles, sometimes misspelled, and printer’s address on the paper frame suggest that these prints were published in London, not Paris. Patently 18th century, with a hint of the boudoir, the resulting works closely resemble highly finished pastels.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Charles Melchior Descourtis
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Title
- Le Tambourin
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Origin
- France
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Date
- Made 1788–1794
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Medium
- Color aquatint (ash manner), with etching and engraving, on ivory wove paper
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Dimensions
- 307 × 235 mm (image); 390 × 292 mm (plate); 493 × 344 mm (sheet)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Charles Netcher
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Reference Number
- 1924.1308
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/14442/manifest.json
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