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L'Indiscretion by JANINET, Jean-Francois after Nicolas LAVREINCE
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Book desription: Paris: A Paris chez Janinet, rue Haute Feuille, No. 5. Et chez Efnauts et Rapilly, rue St. Jacques, a la Ville de Coutances, No. 259, July 1788. Mixed method colour print, printed in yellow, blue, red, pink and black inks from five plates. Two registration marks in plate. In excellent condition with wide margins. Image size: 14 x 11 inches. 14 1/4 x 19 1/4 inches. 21 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches. This print is a breathtaking impression of one of Janinet's most famous prints, from a series of boudoir scenes executed in collaboration with the painter Nicolas Lavreince. Jean Francois Janinet (1752-1814) is considered one the most accomplished French engravers of the eighteenth century. His beautiful images remain some of the most sought after prints on the market and they stand as a testimony to the superior quality of early French colour printing. "In 1771 Janinet began to work in Bonnet's atelier where he soon mastered the techniques of multiple-plate colour printing and chalk-manner engraving. On his own, he refined these processes by 1772 to produce the first colour prints in imitation of watercolour and wash drawings. These prints were executed entirely with specialized engravers tools and without recourse to aquatint". During his career "Janinet made more than eight hundred prints, including 260 in drawing books, three hundred views, 175 costume and theatrical portraits, fifty-six scenes of the significant events of the Revolution, as well as numerous little round prints for buttons and box tops, few of which survive". Janinet's best work is exemplified in this beautiful print, which was published as part of a series of twelve frivolous erotic prints. The series was executed in collaboration with the celebrated Swedish artist Nicolas Lavreince, who had earned a reputation as one of the most celebrated decorative artists in France. In Paris during the latter part of the eighteenth century there developed a fashion for titillating pictures of intimate boudoir scenes. This print is a wonderful example of this new trend and is a lovely impression of one of Janinet's most famous prints. "L'Indiscretion" was published by Janinet in 1788 as the third print in his famous collaborative series with Lavreince. Typical of this genre of French printmaking "L'Indiscretion" is set in an extravagant boudoir where two young women fight for the possession of a love letter. Lavreince's frivolous scene is perfectly translated into print by Janinet, creating a visual triumph embodying the best of French decorative art and the genius of early colour printing. (Regency to Empire: French Printmaking 1715-1814, p. 351) Regency to Empire: French Printmaking 1715-1814, p. 265, 266, 351; Nevill, French Prints of the Eighteenth Century p. 161
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