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Gilles Demarteau, artist
French, 1729 - 1776
Portrait of Carle Vanloo, 18th century
Soft ground etching, printed in sanguine ink
41.8 x 32.6 cm (image); 48.9 x 38.6 cm (sheet)
Purchase by E. Gunter Troche, from Paul Proute, Paris, 1971 1971.29.13

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Artist Biography: Born Liege 1729; died Paris 1776. Flemish school. Pensioner of Louis XV, and a member of the Academy of Paris in 1764. He was the inventor of a new mode of soft-ground etching, imitating sanguine crayon drawing, and executed many works after Boucher, Cochin and Huet.

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