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In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
In 1757, a printmaker named Jean-Charles François developed a printing technique to make facsimiles of chalk drawings. He perfected his method by inventing tools with toothed points of varying thicknesses set at irregular intervals and angles, imitating the random character of grains of chalk on textured paper. Gilles Demarteau adopted François's specialized implements to copy the chalk drawings of such well-known artists as Jean Baptiste le Prince and François Boucher.
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François Boucher (French, 1703–1770) — Seated Woman Holding 
Jean François Clermont|Gilles Demarteau — La Marchande de La
François Boucher — Girl in a Landscape with a Basket of Flow
Claude Simpol|Bernard Picart — Lady with a Mirror
François Boucher — Woman Playing with a Cat
François Boucher — A Woman and Children Playing with a Chine
François Boucher|Gabriel Huquier — Touch, from The Five Sens
Martin Engelbrecht|François Boucher — Man Sitting and Woman ![Contadina, from Recueil de diverses fig.res étrangeres Inventées par F. Boucher P.tre du Roy et Gravées par F. Ravenet (Collection of Various Foreign Figures, Devised by F. Boucher, Painter of the King and Engraved [etched] by F. Ravenet), plate 7](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/dp/web-large/DP826701.jpg)
François Boucher|Gabriel Huquier — Contadina, from Recueil d
Gabriel Huquier|François Boucher — A Seated Chinese Man and 
Gilles Demarteau|Jean-Baptiste Huet I — Une Liseuse
Jean Pillement — Chinoiserie
