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The Indiscretion
Jean-François Janinet, Niclas Lafrensen1788
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
<em>The Indiscretion </em>is from a suite of three scenes of women sharing secrets in the privacy of their boudoirs. The woman wearing a decadent hat has taken a love letter from the girl in white, who pleads with her older companion to give it back. Janinet refined the tools used in chalk-manner printmaking to create wash-manner etchings and engravings that imitate opaque watercolors, such as <em>The Lover’s Visit </em>and <em>The Surprised Lovers </em>on view nearby.
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- Title: The Indiscretion
- Creator: Jean François Janinet (French, 1752-1814), Nicolas Lavreince (Swedish)
- Date Created: 1788
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 57.6 x 43 cm (22 11/16 x 16 15/16 in.); Platemark: 48.3 x 36.2 cm (19 x 14 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: Cortland F. Bishop (Lugt Supplement 2770b); [American Art Association/ Anderson Galleries, 1935, lot 103, illustrated, p. 67]
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.18
- Medium: Color wash-manner engraving and etching
- State of work: II/III
- Department: Prints
- Culture: France, 18th century
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: PR - Lavis manner
- Accession Number: 2001.18
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