id:			164782
accession number:	2006.182
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.182
updated:		2025-02-09 06:11:06.184000

Love Requests Venus to Return His Weapons to Him, 1768. Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736–1793), after François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Chalk-manner etching and engraving printed in color; sheet: 30 x 39.8 cm (11 13/16 x 15 11/16 in.); platemark: 27.3 x 36.7 cm (10 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Parmelee Fund 2006.182

title:				Love Requests Venus to Return His Weapons to Him
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creation date:			1768
creation date earliest:		1768
creation date latest:		1768
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creditline:			James Parmelee Fund
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	chalk-manner etching and engraving printed in color
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Etching
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: Herold 17, state I/V

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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: Sheet: 30 x 39.8 cm (11 13/16 x 15 11/16 in.); Platemark: 27.3 x 36.7 cm (10 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.)
state of the work:	I/V
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	description:	antique laid blue paper
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings
	opening date:   2016-07-16T04:00:00
	<i>Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	"Exhibitions.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> vol. 56, no. 5 (September/October 2016): 4.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 4.
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2016-05

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