The Charmes of the Morning
Medium
Pastel-manner engraving and etching in color, with gold leaf, on ivory laid paper
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
35693
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Louis-Marin Bonnet’s color-printing repertoire included these variations on the fashionable pastel portrait genre (1924.1308 and 1927.875). Softly layering multiple chalk-manner plates in colored inks, he completed the images with gold-leaf-accented frames. As the use of gold leaf was strictly regulated in France, Bonnet created an elaborate ruse: the English titles, sometimes misspelled, and printer’s address on the paper frame suggest that these prints were published in London, not Paris. Pate...
About the Artist
Louis-Marin Bonnet · 1736–1793
Comment on works: Copper engraver