Tête de jeune fille

mid-18th century

Carle Van Loo, Artist Louis Marin Bonnet, Artist

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About the Artwork

Title Tête de jeune fille

Artwork Date mid-18th century

Makers Carle Van Loo (Artist) French, 1705-1765 Louis Marin Bonnet (Artist) French, 1736-1793

Medium Crayon manner engraving printed in black and white on gray-brown laid paper

Dimensions Image: 14 × 11 3/8 inches (35.6 × 28.9 cm) Sheet: 15 3/8 × 11 1/2 inches (39.1 × 29.2 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 58.347

Markings

Signed Signed, in plate, lower: Carle Van loo

Inscriptions Inscribed, below image, lower left: Dessiné par Carl Vanloo Inscribed, lower right: Gravé par Louis Bonnet Inscribed, center lower margin: DEDIÉE À MONSIEUR CARLE VANLOO Inscribed, bottom left edge: À Paris, chez Bonnet, Pont St. Michel, aux Armes | de France, vis-a-vis la rue du Hurpoix. Inscribed, bottom right edge: Par son très-humble, et très- | obeissant, serviteur, Louis Bonnet Inscribed, in pencil across bottom edge, verso: [numeric notations]

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1958-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Eighteenth-Century French Prints from Midwest Collections. Exh. cat., Dayton Art Institute. Dayton, 1984, no. 6.

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Louis Marin Bonnet; after Carle Van Loo, Tête de jeune fille, mid-18th century, crayon manner engraving printed in black and white on gray-brown laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund, 58.347.