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

[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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A woman absorbed in a book is the subject here, and the title names the book as *Eloïse et Abailard*, the story of the twelfth-century scholar Peter Abelard and his student Héloïse. Their surviving letters about love and separation were widely read in eighteenth-century France. The design follows a drawing by François Boucher, reproduced by Gilles Demarteau in the crayon manner, a color printing method that imitated the soft strokes of chalk drawings. Probably made between about 1750 and 1770, the print shows how fashionable reading had become a favorite theme in French decorative art of the period.

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 scan1,140 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176715

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