The Indiscretion, 1788. The Indiscretion is from a suite of three scenes of women sharing secrets in the privacy of their boudoirs. The woman wearing a decadent hat has taken a love letter from the girl in white, who pleads with her older companion to give it back. Janinet refined the tools used in chalk-manner printmaking to create wash-manner etchings and engravings that imitate opaque watercolours, such as The Lover’s Visit and The Surprised Lovers on view nearby.

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Keywords: 1752-1814, 18th, art, century, cleveland, color, engraving, etching, france, françois, french, heritage, janinet, jean, museum, print, wash-manner