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Gilles Demarteau, artist
French, 1729 - 1776
Holy Family, 18th century
Soft ground etching, sanguine
15.1 x 13.2 cm (image); 20.3 x 14.7 cm (sheet)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.29653

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after, FranÁois Boucher

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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.