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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2006.310
People
Gilles Demarteau, French (Liège 1722 - 1776)
After François Boucher, French (Paris 1703 - 1770 Paris)
Title
Two Women with Flowers
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
c. 1769
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/318171

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Chalk manner engraving, printed in red
Dimensions
Sheet: 16.6 × 12 cm (6 9/16 × 4 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: This sheet has been trimmed and the original inscriptions thus lost.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol VI, no. 195, p. 398; Leymarie 195

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Nesta and Walter Spink
Accession Year
2006
Object Number
2006.310
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
A number of printmakers, beginning in the 1760s, developed the "chalk manner" (also called "crayon manner") technique for rendering imitations of pastel or chalk lines, most often used to create facsimiles of drawings. Chalk-manner prints were made in as many as three colors-black, red, and white-from one or more copper plates worked either in etching or engraving, or in a combination of the two. Special toothed tools such as roulettes were used to create dotted patterns on the plate that suggest the grainy appearance of chalk lines on paper. Demarteau was a master of the chalk-manner technique.

Exhibition History

  • HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Rotation #1: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/14/2011 - 03/05/2011
  • 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 03/11/2015

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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