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Louis-Marin Bonnet

Young Woman Seated on a Bed

before 1764
chalk manner etching and engraving printed in red

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Although this scene of a nude woman lounging in her bedchamber appears to be drawn with red chalk like the drawings by Greuze and Boucher nearby, it is actually a printed image. Chalk-manner etchings and engravings are made using special punches and rollers with teeth of various sizes set at irregular intervals to re-create the natural granular effects of chalk lines drawn on textured paper.

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