Venus and Cupid on a Dolphin

1767

Louis-Marin Bonnet

Artist, French, 1736 - 1793

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in black and white on blue paper

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund and Robison Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 40.6 x 27.5 cm (16 x 10 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 44.6 x 31.8 cm (17 9/16 x 12 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2010.86.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Herold 1935, no. 14, State ii/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Carel Joseph Frederik Johan Maassen, Amsterdam (Lugt 1774b). (sale, Reiss & Sohn oHG, Königstein im Taunus, 30 April 2010, no. 59); (via C. G. Boerner, Inc., New York); purchased 2010 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1935

  • Herold, Jacques. Louis-Marin Bonnet (1735-1793): Catalogue de l'oeuvre grave. Paris: La Societe pour l'etude de la gravure Francaise, 1935.

Inscriptions

below image in plate: F. Boucher delin / Tiré du Cabinet de Monsieur de Montullé Conseilleir d'Etat... / ...et chez la Ve. Chereau rue St. Jacques aux deux Piliers d'Or / L. bonnet sculp 1767

Wikidata ID

Q76552925

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