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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2015.155
People
Louis-Marin Bonnet, French (Paris 1736 - 1793 Saint-Mandé)
After François Boucher, French (Paris 1703 - 1770 Paris)
Title
The Awakening of Venus
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Le Réveil de Venus
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1769
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/354318

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel manner engraving printed in several colors on blue antique laid paper
Technique
Pastel manner
Dimensions
image: 28 × 38.4 cm (11 × 15 1/8 in.)
sheet: 32.6 × 41.2 cm (12 13/16 × 16 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: left, below image: F. Boucher del.
  • inscription: right, below image: L. Bonnet Sculp.
  • inscription: recto, upper left, in graphite: 4
  • collector's mark: verso, right, in brown ink: S [encircled] [mark of Otto Schäfer]
  • inscription: verso, left, in graphite: [illeg. text]
  • inscription: verso, right, in graphite: 71457/3

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. Otto Schäfer, Schweinfurt, sold; [through Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 24, 1994, part of lot 283]. [Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2015.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i/v
Standard Reference Number
I.F.F. vol. 3, p. 145, no. 14

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2015
Object Number
2015.155
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Meisterwerke der Graphik von 1425 bis 1925: Teile der Sammlung Otto Schäfer, auct. cat., Galerie Kornfeld (Bern, June 1992), cat. no. 283, repr.
  • Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art/Lund Humphries Publishers (Washington, D.C., 2003), p. 67, cat. no. 18 [not Harvard impression]
  • Graphik-Anthologie, auct. cat., Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler (Frankfurt, 2015), p. 12, repr. p. 2 , pp. 13-15
  • Edouard Kopp, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Kristel Smentek, ed., Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), pp. 285, 287, repr. p. 287 as fig. 1

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