About this artwork
The artists of the Gautier D’Agosty family experimented with several approaches to color printing. In the attempt to make what they called “printed paintings”, they sometimes even varnished their final results. This aquatint is not only printed in full color from multiple plates, but the lace bordering Madam du Barry’s negligée has been deeply embossed in a painterly impasto manner. The accompanying poem suggest fawningly that this royal mistress in her boudoir is indistinguishable from Venus, the goddess of love.
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Status
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On loan to Newberry Library in Chicago for Seeing Race Before Race
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Jean Baptiste André Gautier d'Agoty
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Title
- Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse Du Barry, and her servant Zamor
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1771
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Medium
- Color aquatint, hand applied opaque white and embossing on laid paper
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Dimensions
- Plate: 39.9 × 31.2 cm (15 3/4 × 12 5/16 in.); Sheet: 44.7 × 33.6 cm (17 5/8 × 13 1/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Charles Netcher
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Reference Number
- 1928.592
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/61073/manifest.json
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