La Toilette

Art Historical Context

**La Toilette** is a charming 18th-century color stipple engraving by Louis-Marin Bon, created after an original composition by Nicolas-René Jollain between 1726 and 1750. Measuring 28.9 × 22.9 cm, this intimate print depicts a scene of feminine elegance—likely a woman at her toilette, or dressing table—capturing the refined domesticity so beloved in French Rococo art. Jollain, a Parisian painter and engraver, specialized in such graceful genre scenes, while Bonnet masterfully reproduced them in print form, making high art accessible to a wider audience. The medium, color stipple, was a revol...