About this artwork
John Douglas Miller was a skilled mezzotint engraver who reproduced Renaissance-era and contemporary works with a painterly touch. This rare, pristine intermediary model drawing was made by Miller after William Bouguereau’s small-scale studio version of his painting The First Whisper of Love. Artists and printmakers relied heavily on these drawings during the process of designing prints and often destroyed them afterward.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- John Douglas Miller
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Title
- The First Whisper of Love
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Place
- England (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1884–1894
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Medium
- Watercolor on ivory wove paper
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Dimensions
- 57.2 × 39.9 cm (22 9/16 × 15 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Endowment Fund, William H. Tuthill Endowment Fund, Print and Drawing Fund
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Reference Number
- 2012.556
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/215319/manifest.json