id: 163014 accession number: 2003.50 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.50 updated: 2022-01-04 17:33:33.328000 The Milk Woman, 1774. Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793). Color chalk-manner etching and engraving with applied gold-leaf ; sheet: 31.8 x 24.7 cm (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.); image: 28.3 x 23.3 cm (11 1/8 x 9 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt Endowment Fund 2003.50 title: The Milk Woman title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1774 creation date earliest: 1774 creation date latest: 1774 current location: creditline: Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt Endowment Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: color chalk-manner etching and engraving with applied gold-leaf department: Prints collection: PR - Chalk Manner type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Hérold 295 --- CREATORS * Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 31.8 x 24.7 cm (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 in.); Image: 28.3 x 23.3 cm (11 1/8 x 9 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: In his quest to emulate fashionable drawings for display, Bonnet developed a method for printing gold frames. After preparing the paper with printed layers of lead white and a red adhesive compound called a mordant, Bonnet hand-applied gold leaf, on top of which he printed ornamental patterns. Because French regulations restricted the use of gold to certain artisans, like furniture builders, Bonnet disguised these prints as English imports. He sold them from a shop called Au Magasin Anglois (From the English Shop) and even advertised the fictional name “Le. Marin” as the foreign inventor of the printed frames. For English-speakers, however, the odd spelling “ta-King” in the inscription for The Woman Taking Coffee betrays Bonnet. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.50/2003.50_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.50/2003.50_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2003.50/2003.50_full.tif