La Toilette de Venus (The Toilette of Venus)

Prints and Drawings

1783

Jean-François Janinet (French, 1752-1814)
after François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)

One of Jean François Janinet’s most ambitious productions, this carefully wrought print reproduces at one-third size a painting by François Boucher made in 1751 for his most important patron, the Marquise de Pompadour. The painting hung in the bathroom of the marquise’s château at Bellevue and was sold after her death in 1764, probably to Jean François Chereau, the publisher of this elaborate print.

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Artist: Jean François Janinet
Title: La Toilette de Venus (The Toilette of Venus)
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1783
Medium: Color aquatint from four plates, crayon-manner, and etching on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Lettered, lower left: "F. Boucher pinxit."; lower right: "F. Janinet Sculpsit. 1783"; below image: "La Toilette De Venus/ Dédiée à Madame la Comtesse de Coastin/ Née Mailly/ A Paris, chez Chereau, Rue des Mathruins, pès celle de Sorbonne./ Par son très obéissant serviteur Janinet."
Dimensions: Plate: 44.6 × 39.1 cm (17 9/16 × 15 7/16 in.); Sheet: 59.4 × 45.9 cm (23 7/16 × 18 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1944.175
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Beraldi 4:476, no. 2 I/III

Jean-Richard 300 IV/IV

Fonds Français 39

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