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accession number:	1927.336
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.336
updated:		2025-02-08 23:48:01.107000

The Washerwoman, 1767. Gilles Demarteau (French, 1722–1776), after François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Crayon manner etching; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1927.336

title:				The Washerwoman
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creation date:			1767
creation date earliest:		1767
creation date latest:		1767
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creditline:			Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	crayon manner etching
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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CREATORS

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

* François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)  - artist
French Rococo artist who epitomizes the frivolous and elegant court life of France in the mid-18th century. During his early career he was closely associated with Watteau, many of whose paintings he engraved. Boucher was a successful and incredibly prolific artistic who had a major impact on both fine and decorative art of the 18th century. He is particularly noted for having reinvented the genre of the pastoral, creating images of shepherds and shepherdesses as sentimental lovers that was taken up in a variety of medium. Boucher's sketchy manner of painting helped to promote painterliness as an end in itself. This trend dominated French painting until the emergence of Neoclassicism, when the tides of criticism turned against Boucher and his followers.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection
	opening date:   1934-06-05T04:00:00
	<i>Prints of the Fifteenth to Twentieth Century from the Museum Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 5-September 12, 1934).

	title:		French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792
	opening date:   1982-02-02T05:00:00
	<i>French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982).

	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).

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