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In this print, Louis-Marin Bonnet used chalk-manner engraving to reproduce the soft contours of a nude by François Boucher. An 18th-century invention, chalk- or crayon-manner engravings were made with roulette wheels that rolled dotted patterns onto copper plates and mimicked the line of chalk or pastel. Here Bonnet printed two separate chalk-manner plates in black and white inks on blue paper to give the impression of a carefully worked drawing.
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- Maker
- Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793), after François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
- Date
- 1768
- Medium
- Crayon-manner in black and white on blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 35.7 × 23.2 cm (14 1/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
- Place of origin
- France
- Held by
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Woods Fund
Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0
