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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: creation date earliest: creation date latest: current location: creditline: Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: chalk-manner etching and engraving department: Prints collection: PR - Chalk Manner type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Inventaire du Fonds Français XVIII.VI.413.255 --- CREATORS * Gilles Demarteau (French, 1722-1776) - artist * Jean Baptiste Le Prince (French, 1734-1781) - artist --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts opening date: 1983-11-11T05:00:00 Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts. 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 Printing in Color. 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 Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/26/01-10/28/01. "Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19th-Century French Prints". --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.335/1927.335_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.335/1927.335_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.335/1927.335_full.tif