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Bonnet, Louis-Marin
(b Paris, 1736; d Saint-Mandé, nr Paris, 20 Oct 1793). French engraver and publisher. He came from a family of artisans and owed his training in engraving to his brother-in-law, the engraver Louis Legrand (1723–1808). Through Legrand, Bonnet became the pupil of Jean-Charles François in 1756, a year before the latter discovered the CRAYON MANNER technique of engraving, designed to reproduce the effect of a coloured-chalk drawing. Around the end of 1757 Bonnet used the new technique to engrave a Cupid (see Hérold, no. 2A) after François Eisen. Gilles Demarteau, a rival of Jean-Charles François, enticed Bonnet to join his workshop and learnt the technique from him.
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- Bonnet, Louis-Marin
- Engraving, §II, 4(iii): Reproductive engraving, c 1600–c 1750
- assistants
- engravings
- prints
- Boucher, François, §I, 3: Life and work, 1765–70
- Boucher, François, §II, 2: Working methods and technique: Drawing
- Prints, §III, 6(ii)(a): Colour printing, 15th–18th centuries
- reproductive prints by others
- teachers
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