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| Louis-Marin Bonnet (1743–1793) | ||||||||||
| A French Rococo engraver working in aquatint and chalk, and a skilled draughtsman, Louis Bonnet was born in Paris. He later spent some time in St Petersburg, where he engraved portraits of members of the Russian court. Upon returning to Paris, he published several engraved plates in a style imitating crayon drawings, mainly after Boucher and other contemporary French masters. Bonnet invented one of the first colour-printing methods using multiple matrices, creating a pastel-like effect. In 1769, he published a treatise titled Le Pastel en gravure inventé, et exécuté par Louis Bonnet on his new method. He was pioneering in using registration points to print several plates on top of one another and also experimented with aquatint-like techniques designed to reproduce wash drawings. Unfortunately, his pastel process was too expensive and fragile, which led him to simplify it, though the results were less refined. Although he produced a large catalogue of works in 1780, many were created at his workshop under his direction. Bonnet died in Saint-Mandé. | ||||||||||
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