Young Woman Seated on a Bed (before 1764): Art, History and Details
Young Woman Seated on a Bed at the Cleveland Museum of Art: before 1764, chalk manner etching and engraving printed in red. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Young Woman Seated on a Bed (before 1764) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736–1793); François Boucher (French, 1703–1770).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Although this scene of a nude woman lounging in her bedchamber appears to be drawn with red chalk like the drawings by Greuze and Boucher nearby, it is actually a printed image. Chalk-manner etchings and engravings are made using special punches and rollers with teeth of various sizes set at irregular intervals to re-create the natural granular effects of chalk lines drawn on textured paper.
Object facts
- Title: Young Woman Seated on a Bed
- Date: before 1764
- Creator attribution: Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736–1793); François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
- Culture: France
- Type: Print
- Technique: chalk manner etching and engraving printed in red
- Dimensions: Sheet: 46.9 x 33.1 cm (18 7/16 x 13 1/16 in.); Platemark: 44.2 x 30.6 cm (17 3/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
- Collection: PR - Chalk Manner
- Department: Prints
- Accession number: 2009.16
Collection credit
James Parmelee Fund
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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