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Home>Exhibitions>Past>2003>Colorful Impressions

# Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France

October 26, 2003 – February 16, 2004West Building, Ground Floor, Central Galleries

1942.9.2266

**This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.**

**Overview:** 102 prints and drawings and 8 books illustrating the development of color printmaking in 18th-century France were shown in this exhibition. The works were by innovative printmakers such as Jakob Christoffel Le Blon, Charles-Melchior Descourtis, Anne Allen, and Louis-Marin Bonnet, who used new techniques to create full-color reproductions of paintings by well-known artists of the time. The exhibition complemented *The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting*, on view in main floor galleries from October 12, 2003-January 11, 2004.

**Organization:** The exhibition was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator of old master drawings, was the curator.

**Attendance:**  133,212

**Catalog:***Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth Century France*, by Margaret Morgan Grasselli et al. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2003.

**Brochure:***Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth Century France*, by Margaret Morgan Grasselli with Judith A. Walsh. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2003.

                    - Le Blon, Jakob Christoffel
                    - German , 1667 - 1741
                    - Descourtis, Charles-Melchior
                    - French , 1753 - 1820
                    - Allen, Anne
                    - French , 1680 - 1820
                    - Bonnet, Louis-Marin
                    - French , 1736 - 1793

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