"Buste de jeune fille"

Artist Louis Marin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793)

Date1774-1776

Dimensionsimage: 11 3/8 x 8 1/8 in. (28.9 x 20.6 cm)
Overall: 12 1/8 x 8 1/4 in. (30.8 x 21 cm)

MediumChalk manner engraving in colors with printed goldleaf borders

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineFrederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund

Object number

2000.46

Not on View

Published ReferencesJacques Hérold, Louis-Marin Bonnet, 1736-1793: catalogue de l'oeuvre gravé (Paris, M. Rousseau, 1935), no. 230, only stateExhibition HistoryTMA New Acquisitions in Graphic Arts, Dec. 21, 2001-March 30, 2002 Exhibitions Unknown. It is interesting to note that Bonnet was not agréé at the Académie Royale, which afforded engravers the privilege of exhibiting at the Salon (18th century French printmakers were not afforded the prestige of painters and sculptors). Therefore, this print would probably not have had much of an exhibition history before its purchase by Otto Schäfer in the 20th century. French Prints from the TMA, Feb 18 - May 15, 2005