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[Woman reading a book (Eloyse et Abailard)] / F. Boucher in del.; Demarteau...Scul. – Historic Reproduction

[Woman reading a book (Eloyse et Abailard)] / F. Boucher in del.; Demarteau...Scul. — historic print
[Woman reading a book (Eloyse et Abailard)] / F. Boucher in del.; Demarteau...Scul.. Historic print from the Books & Writers collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The book in this woman's hands carries the title *Eloyse et Abailard*, a reference to Héloïse and Abélard, the twelfth-century lovers whose letters remained popular reading in eighteenth-century France. François Boucher designed the composition, and Gilles Demarteau translated it into a color print in the crayon manner, a technique that imitated the soft, chalky strokes of drawings. The library dates the sheet only to between 1750 and 1770, a span that reflects the Rococo taste for intimate scenes of leisure and sentiment.

Medium1 print : col. crayon manner.
Genreold data from caption card. Caption card tracings: 1. Boucher
Notes[between 1750 and 1770]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,186 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117460

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