Bather
Medium
Crayon-manner in black and white on blue laid paper
Dimensions
35.7 × 23.2 cm (14 1/16 × 9 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
104903
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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.
About the Artist
Louis-Marin Bonnet · 1736–1793
Comment on works: Copper engraver