About this artwork
Louis-Marin Bonnet’s color-printing repertoire included these variations on the fashionable pastel portrait genre (1924.1308 and 1927.875). 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
- Louis-Marin Bonnet
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Title
- The Pleasures of Education
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1777
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Medium
- Pastel-manner engraving and etching in color, with gold leaf, on ivory laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 29.3 × 23.8 cm (11 9/16 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 31.5 × 24.5 cm (12 7/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Charles Netcher in memory of Charles Netcher II
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Reference Number
- 1927.874
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/35690/manifest.json
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