About the Artwork
Tête de jeune fille
mid-18th century
Carle Van Loo (Artist) French, 1705-1765 Louis Marin Bonnet (Artist) French, 1736-1793
Crayon manner engraving printed in black and white on gray-brown laid paper
Image: 14 × 11 3/8 inches (35.6 × 28.9 cm) Sheet: 15 3/8 × 11 1/2 inches (39.1 × 29.2 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Elizabeth P. Kirby Fund
58.347
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower: Carle Van loo
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]
Provenance
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.
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