The Lunch
Medium
Stipple and wash manner
Dimensions
Sheet (trimmed): 13 3/16 × 10 1/16 in. (33.5 × 25.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Georges S. Seligmann, 1965
Accession Number
65.692.3
Tags
About this artwork
"The Lunch" exemplifies revolutionary 18th-century French color printing through collaboration between master engraver Louis Marin Bonnet and painter Jean-Baptiste Huet I. Bonnet (1736-1793) pioneered the pastel manner technique, reproducing soft, powdery chalk effects. Working after Huet's designs, Bonnet employed stipple and wash manner, combining dotted engraving with fluid tonal areas for remarkable delicacy. This period marked France's printmaking revolution, where multi-plate color process...
About the Artist
Louis Marin Bonnet|Jean-Baptiste Huet I · 1736–1793
Comment on works: Copper engraver