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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2016.252
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/356943

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Crayon manner print
Dimensions
plate: 35.7 × 41.3 cm (14 1/16 × 16 1/4 in.)
sheet: 40 × 55.8 cm (15 3/4 × 21 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: in plate, lower left: F. Boucher del.
  • inscription: in plate, lower right: L. Bonnet Sculp.
  • inscription: in plate, bottom center: LE REVEIL DE VENUS. / Dédié à Madame la Marquise De Langeac / A Paris, chez Bonnet, rue St. Jacques. Par son très humble obéissant serviteur, Bonnet.
  • inscription: upper right, black ink: 20[?]
  • collector's mark: verso: S [encircled] (mark of Otto Schäfer)
  • inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 74157 / 3
  • watermark: dovecote
  • inscription: from old mat, graphite: Hérold 20/V / - Endgültiger Auflagendruck mit der abgeänderten Verleger - / adresse; das Blütengewinde über dem Shloß ausgeschilffen. -

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Dr. Otto Schäfer (not in Lugt), Schweinfurt, sold; [through Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, June 24, 1994, part of lot 283]. [Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
v/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
2016
Object Number
2016.252
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), lot 283, repr.

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