id: 164782 accession number: 2006.182 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2006.182 updated: 2022-05-14 09:02:56.384000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1768 creation date earliest: 1768 creation date latest: 1768 current location: creditline: James Parmelee Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: chalk-manner etching and engraving printed in color department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Herold 17, state I/V --- 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. --- 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 edition of the work: support materials: description: antique laid blue 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: For his aristocratic patrons, Boucher made numerous paintings of intriguing female nudes, thinly veiled as Roman goddesses lounging in luxury. Bonnet’s color chalk-manner prints of similar subjects offered middle-class buyers sumptuous yet affordable versions of Boucher’s wildly popular images. Here, a tiny cupid pleads with Venus for his quiver of arrows as she gazes teasingly at the viewer. Their feathered ends simultaneously conceal and draw attention to her nudity. With cupid’s arrows in her control, it is Venus—rather than cupid—who has the power to arouse feelings of love. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.182/2006.182_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.182/2006.182_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2006.182/2006.182_full.tif