L'Amour à l'épreuve by Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet after Pierre-Antoine Baudouin

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

sheet: 49.1 × 33.7 cm (19 5/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.2186

Art Historical Context

**L'Amour à l'é (Love Put to the Test Created between 1726 and 1750, this enchanting engraving by Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet reproduces an original design by Pierre-Antoine Baud, a leading French Rococo artist. Baudouin (1723–1769), a pupil of François Boucher, specialized in playful, intimate scenes of love and mythology that captured the lighthearted elegance of mid-18th-century France. The Rococo style, with its curving forms, soft colors, and themes of amorous intrigue, reflected the refined tastes of the aristocracy during Louis XV's reign, blending sensuality with whimsy. Beauvarlet (...

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