2015.156: The Awakening of Venus
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2015.156
- People
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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
- Date
- 1769
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/354319
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Pastel manner engraving printed in several colors on blue antique laid paper
- Technique
- Pastel manner
- Dimensions
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Image: 27.8 × 37.8 cm (10 15/16 × 14 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 32.9 × 40.8 cm (12 15/16 × 16 1/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: right, bottom, in graphite: 74157/3
- collector's mark: verso, bottom right: S [encircled] [mark of Otto Schäfer]
- inscription: center, below image: LE REVEIL DE VENUS. / Dédié à Madame la Marquise de Langeac / A Paris, chez Bonnet, rue Gallande près la Place Maubert, entre un chandelier et un Layetier. / Par son très obéissant serviteur, Bonnet.
- inscription: lower left corner, in graphite: lg
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
- ii/v
- Standard Reference Number
- IFF, vol. III, no. 14, p. 145
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
- Accession Year
- 2015
- Object Number
- 2015.156
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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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
- Graphik-Anthologie, auct. cat., Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler (Frankfurt, 2015), p. 16, repr. p. 17
Exhibition History
- 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/13/2017 - 02/08/2018
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