id: 159718
accession number: 1996.6
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.6
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Head of a Woman (Mme. Deshayes?), c. 1771. Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736–1793), after François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Color chalk-manner etching and engraving; image: 41.5 x 35.7 cm (16 5/16 x 14 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1996.6
title: Head of a Woman (Mme. Deshayes?)
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creation date: c. 1771
creation date earliest: 1766
creation date latest: 1776
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creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture: France, 18th century
technique: color chalk-manner etching and engraving
department: Prints
collection: PR - Chalk Manner
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Hérold 59
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CREATORS
* Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736–1793) - 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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measurements: Image: 41.5 x 35.7 cm (16 5/16 x 14 1/16 in.)
state of the work: II/II
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).
title: Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings
opening date: 2016-07-16T04:00:00
Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, “The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Major Works,” March 18, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4027
Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 353
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.6/1996.6_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.6/1996.6_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.6/1996.6_full.tif