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LOUIS-MARIN BONNET (after Boucher) Tête de Flore.
Color crayon manner engraving, 1769. 400x312 mm; 15 3/4x12 1/4 inches. Second state (of 3), before the additional shading in the background. Indiscernible (4-quadrant shield ?) watermark. Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark.
According to Ittmann, this "is one of the supreme achievements of French eighteenth-century printmaking," (Carlson/Ittmann, Regency to Empire, French Printmaking 1715-1814, Minneapolis, 1984, p. 194). The print represents Boucher's youngest daughter, Marie-Emilie, who married the artist's protégé, Pierre-Antoine Baudouin. Jean-Richard 380; Hérold 192; Ittmann, et als., 63.
