Le bain (The Bath) by Nicolas François Regnault after Pierre-Antoine Baudouin

Medium

color stipple etching and etching

Classification

Print

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...

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