Le bain (The Bath)
Medium
color stipple etching and etching
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Widener Collection
Accession Number
1942.9.2189
Art Historical Context
Step into the intimate world of 18th-century French rococo art with *Le bain (The Bath)*, a color stipple etching and etching created by Nicolas François Regnault after a design by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin around 1726–1750. Baudouin, a celebrated painter of playful and sensual scenes, captured the era's fascination with private moments, evoking the graceful curves and delicate pleasures of daily life amid opulent interiors. Regnault's masterful reproduction brings this vision to life through printmaking, preserving Baudouin's original charm for wider audiences. The medium is particularly notew...