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Young Woman Seated on a Bed
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About this work
Although this scene of a nude woman lounging in her bedchamber appears to be drawn with red chalk like the drawings by Greuze and Boucher nearby, it is actually a printed image. Chalk-manner etchings and engravings are made using special punches and rollers with teeth of various sizes set at irregular intervals to re-create the natural granular effects of chalk lines drawn on textured paper.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineYoung Woman Seated on a Bed, before 1764. Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736–1793), after François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Chalk manner etching and engraving printed in red; sheet: 46.9 x 33.1 cm (18 7/16 x 13 1/16 in.); platemark: 44.2 x 30.6 cm (17 3/8 x 12 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Parmelee Fund, 2009.16
