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![Image: Louis-Marin Bonnet after François Boucher,Téte de Flore (Head of Flora), 1769](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080917085110im_/http://www.nga.gov/images/decor/colorful.jpg)
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The names of the printmakers who pioneered these techniques--Bonnet, Demarteau, Janinet, Descourtis, and Debucourt, to name a few--are not well known today, but the artists whose compositions they engraved rank among the most famous of the 18th century--Boucher, Watteau, Fragonard, Robert, Boilly, among others. The prints capture the spirit of the times--the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI and the advent of the Revolution--in a unique and highly memorable way. The exhibition complements The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting.