id:			109180
accession number:	1927.335
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.335
updated:		2022-01-04 15:06:39.145000

Young Girl Holding a Bird. Gilles Demarteau (French, 1722-1776), after Jean Baptiste Le Prince (French, 1734-1781). Chalk-manner etching and engraving; sheet: 22.3 x 26.9 cm (8 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.); platemark: 21.5 x 25.7 cm (8 7/16 x 10 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1927.335

title:				Young Girl Holding a Bird
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	chalk-manner etching and engraving
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Chalk Manner
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Inventaire du Fonds Français  XVIII.VI.413.255

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CREATORS

* Gilles Demarteau (French, 1722-1776)  - artist

* Jean Baptiste Le Prince (French, 1734-1781)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 22.3 x 26.9 cm (8 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.); Platemark: 21.5 x 25.7 cm (8 7/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts
	opening date:   1983-11-11T05:00:00
	<i>Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 11, 1983-June 3, 1984).

	title:		Printing in Color
	opening date:   1985-09-10T04:00:00
	<i>Printing in Color</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-November 17, 1985).

	title:		Inventive Impressions:  18th- and 19-Century French Prints
	opening date:   2001-08-26T00:00:00
	<i>Inventive Impressions:  18th- and 19-Century French Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/26/01-10/28/01.  "Inventive Impressions:  18th- and 19th-Century French Prints".

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wall description: 
In 1757 a printmaker named Jean-Charles François developed a printing technique to make facsimiles of chalk drawings. He perfected his method by inventing tools with toothed points of varying thicknesses set at irregular intervals and angles,  imitating the random character of grains of chalk on textured paper. Demarteau adopted François's specialized implements to copy the chalk drawings of such well-known artists as Le Prince and François Boucher.
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