L'aveu difficile & L'indiscretion.

Mixed method print, printed colour etching and aquatint taken from the original painting by Nicolas Lavreince. Engraved by F. Janinet. foxing to blank margins. Jean-Fran?ois Janinet, who studied in the studio of Louis-Marin Bonnet, where he learned multiple-plate colour printing. Responding to a demand for small gouache paintings and inspired by Bonnet?s experiments, Janinet perfected a technique that would approximate gouache (opaque watercolor), using a tool with minute points to create textured surfaces, which were then inked and printed in colour from multiple plates.He also developed colour aquatint engraving. The engraved area of these pair of prints, with fresh colour and are in excellent condition, shows Janinet at his most skillful.