Seated female nude
| Reference: | S5476 |
| Author | Louis Marin Bonnet |
| Year: | 1770 ca. |
| Measures: | 310 x 224 mm |
€300.00
| Reference: | S5476 |
| Author | Louis Marin Bonnet |
| Year: | 1770 ca. |
| Measures: | 310 x 224 mm |
€300.00
Description
Seated female figure, semi naked; head turned to right, right arm outstretched.
Crayon manner printed in red, 1770 circa, after Francois Boucher.
A fine impression, printed on contemporary laid paper, trimmed to the platemark, very good condition.
Louis-Marin Bonnet was a French engraver, painter and publisher of prints attached to the Rococo style. He developed the manner of pastel, a process of engraving derived from the manner of pencil.
As a demonstration of his talent and know-how, in 1769 he engraved a Tête de Flore after Boucher, which required eight matrices to print. The result imitates to perfection a real pastel. In order to have the interest of his invention recognized, Bonnet produces a small treatise entitled Le Pastel en Gravure, invented and executed by Louis Bonnet where the printing process is broken down, plate by plate, all accompanied by handwritten comments by the author. His brilliant pastel process was nevertheless very expensive to implement and relatively fragile (the engraved plates wore out very quickly), which led Bonnet to simplify the process. His later engravings use fewer plates, with obviously less fine results.
He was a pupil of Jean-Charles François and Demarteau and composed hundreds of drawings and engravings, now catalogued and present in public collections. He frequented François Boucher, Lagrenée, Huet and Le Prince whose works he reproduced. His workshop (sale of drawings and prints) was located around 1772 in Paris at the corner of the rue Saint-Jacques and the rue de la Parcheminerie, on the second floor. He also had an address on rue Galande (1767-1772). The catalog of his collection, published by him in 1780, counts 1054 numbers, but all the pieces are not of his hand, the majority having been carried out under his direction within his workshop. These are marked Bonnet direxit. He signed either Bonnet, or sometimes Marin, or Tennob.
Bibliographic references
Jacques Hérold Louis-Marin Bonnet (1756-1793). Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Gravé. Paris, 1935; Jean-Richard 1978, L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild; Margaret Morgan Grasselli Colorful impressions: the printmaking revolution in eighteenth-century France. Washington D.C., 2003.
Louis Marin Bonnet (Parigi 1736–1793)
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Louis-Marin Bonnet (Paris, 1736 or 1743 - Saint-Mandé, October 12, 1793) was a French engraver, painter and publisher of prints attached to the Rococo style. He developed the manner of pastel, a process of engraving derived from the manner of pencil.
Bonnet is a draughtsman and engraver with the wash and the way of pencil, of which he improved the technique until he developed a way of pastel. As a demonstration of his talent and know-how, in 1769 he engraved a Tête de Flore after Boucher, which required eight matrices to print. The result imitates to perfection a real pastel. In order to have the interest of his invention recognized, Bonnet produces a small treatise entitled Le Pastel en Gravure, invented and executed by Louis Bonnet where the printing process is broken down, plate by plate, all accompanied by handwritten comments by the author. The work, presented to the Marquis de Marigny and to the King through Cochin, was rewarded with an oral gratification of 50 louis. His brilliant pastel process was nevertheless very expensive to implement and relatively fragile (the engraved plates wore out very quickly), which led Bonnet to simplify the process. His later engravings use fewer plates, with obviously less fine results.
He was a pupil of Jean-Charles François and Demarteau and composed hundreds of drawings and engravings, now catalogued and present in public collections. He frequented François Boucher, Lagrenée, Huet and Le Prince whose works he reproduced. His workshop (sale of drawings and prints) was located around 1772 in Paris at the corner of the rue Saint-Jacques and the rue de la Parcheminerie, on the second floor. He also had an address on rue Galande (1767-1772). The catalog of his collection, published by him in 1780, counts 1054 numbers, but all the pieces are not of his hand, the majority having been carried out under his direction within his workshop. These are marked Bonnet direxit. He signed either Bonnet, or sometimes Marin, or Tennob.
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Louis Marin Bonnet (Parigi 1736–1793)
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Louis-Marin Bonnet (Paris, 1736 or 1743 - Saint-Mandé, October 12, 1793) was a French engraver, painter and publisher of prints attached to the Rococo style. He developed the manner of pastel, a process of engraving derived from the manner of pencil.
Bonnet is a draughtsman and engraver with the wash and the way of pencil, of which he improved the technique until he developed a way of pastel. As a demonstration of his talent and know-how, in 1769 he engraved a Tête de Flore after Boucher, which required eight matrices to print. The result imitates to perfection a real pastel. In order to have the interest of his invention recognized, Bonnet produces a small treatise entitled Le Pastel en Gravure, invented and executed by Louis Bonnet where the printing process is broken down, plate by plate, all accompanied by handwritten comments by the author. The work, presented to the Marquis de Marigny and to the King through Cochin, was rewarded with an oral gratification of 50 louis. His brilliant pastel process was nevertheless very expensive to implement and relatively fragile (the engraved plates wore out very quickly), which led Bonnet to simplify the process. His later engravings use fewer plates, with obviously less fine results.
He was a pupil of Jean-Charles François and Demarteau and composed hundreds of drawings and engravings, now catalogued and present in public collections. He frequented François Boucher, Lagrenée, Huet and Le Prince whose works he reproduced. His workshop (sale of drawings and prints) was located around 1772 in Paris at the corner of the rue Saint-Jacques and the rue de la Parcheminerie, on the second floor. He also had an address on rue Galande (1767-1772). The catalog of his collection, published by him in 1780, counts 1054 numbers, but all the pieces are not of his hand, the majority having been carried out under his direction within his workshop. These are marked Bonnet direxit. He signed either Bonnet, or sometimes Marin, or Tennob.
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