Louis-Marin Bonnet
Pioneered pastel-style color engraving technique
Louis-Marin Bonnet was a painter and engraver, and as such, he invented one of the first color-printing methods with many matrices and with a pastel-like effect. In 1769, he published a treatise titled Le Pastel en gravure inventé, et execute par Louis Bonnet, about his new method. His workshop, in Rue St. Jacques since 1772, has produced many works of diverse quality from nearly perfect printed reproductions of masterpieces in pastel colors to genre scenes and illustrations, like the one in this study, realized under his direction and always in line with the new technique of the pastel manner. The work Le Petit-Maître is an amusing and typical 18th-century illustration in costume and probably the represented character is the protagonist of a 1734 comedy by Pierre de Marivaux.
Artworks by this artist (25 total)
- Le Gouter
- Les Compliments Du Jour De L’an
- Bust Of A Young Woman Looking Down 1773 or later
- Charms Of The Morning 1777
- Le Réveil de Venus (Venus Rising 1769
- Tête de Joseph (Head of Joseph) 1773
- Les Échasses c. 1790
- Reclining Female Nude 1771
- Le Bain
- Head of a Woman c. 1771
- Le Déjeuné
- The Marriage Presents 1770s
- Marie-Rosalie Vanloo c. 1764
- Les Présents Du Jour De L’an
- Head of a Young Woman Wearing a Cap before 1764
- La Toilette
- Venus and Cupid on a Dolphin 1767
- The Fine Musetioners 1775
- Head of a Young Girl turned toward the Left 1774
- Jupiter and Danaë 1774