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The Woman taking Coffee

Louis-Marin Bonnet1774

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

In his quest to emulate fashionable drawings for display, Bonnet developed a method for printing gold frames. After preparing the paper with printed layers of lead white and a red adhesive compound called a mordant, Bonnet hand-applied gold leaf, on top of which he printed ornamental patterns. Because French regulations restricted the use of gold to certain artisans, like furniture builders, Bonnet disguised these prints as English imports. He sold them from a shop called <em>Au Magasin Anglois</em> (From the English Shop) and even advertised the fictional name “Le. Marin” as the foreign inventor of the printed frames. For English-speakers, however, the odd spelling “ta-King” in the inscription for <em>The Woman Taking Coffee</em> betrays Bonnet.

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  • Title: The Woman taking Coffee
  • Creator: Louis-Marin Bonnet (French, 1736-1793)
  • Date Created: 1774
  • Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 32.2 x 25 cm (12 11/16 x 9 13/16 in.); Image: 28.5 x 23.3 cm (11 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.)
  • Type: Print
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.49
  • Medium: Color chalk-manner etching and engraving with applied gold-leaf
  • Department: Prints
  • Culture: France, 18th century
  • Credit Line: Carole W. and Charles B. Rosenblatt Endowment Fund
  • Collection: PR - Chalk Manner
  • Accession Number: 2003.49
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