Young Woman Seated on a Bed
Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736–1793)
before 1764
Medium
chalk manner etching and engraving printed in red
Dimensions
sheet: 46.9 × 33.1 cm · platemark: 44.2 × 30.6 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
James Parmelee Fund
Accession Number
2009.16
Tags
male
About this artwork
Although this scene of a nude woman lounging in her bedchamber appears to be drawn with red chalk like the drawings by Greuze and Boucher nearby, it is actually a printed image. Chalk-manner etchings and engravings are made using special punches and rollers with teeth of various sizes set at irregular intervals to re-create the natural granular effects of chalk lines drawn on textured paper.