Woman Reading a Book (Eloyse et Abailard)] – Historic Print
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Woman Reading a Book (Eloyse et Abailard)] comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Woman Reading a Book (Eloyse et Abailard)]
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The sitter here is reading *Eloyse et Abailard*, the story of Héloïse and Abélard, the twelfth-century scholar and his student whose secret love and surviving letters made them among the most read lovers of the 18th century. Boucher's design, a favorite of Parisian taste, shows a reader absorbed in a book, a pose that suited the period's fascination with private reading. The print was made by Gilles Demarteau, who developed the crayon manner, a technique that imitated the soft strokes of chalk drawings and let printmakers reproduce a drawing's texture in color. Demarteau issued it in Paris, and it is worth looking closely at how the color tones mimic the handmade quality of the original drawing.
| Created / published | c. 1750-1770 |
|---|---|
| Medium | print, col. crayon manner |
| Notes | F. Boucher in del. Paris: chez Demarteau. By Gilles Demarteau |
| Original scan | 1,500 × 1,938 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176715 |
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