The Archery Contest, 1765

Not on View

Medium

black and white chalks on light brown laid paper (formerly blue)

Dimensions

overall: 25.8 x 85.6 cm (10 3/16 x 33 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Andrea Woodner

Accession Number

2006.11.65

Artists / Makers

François Boucher (artist) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in black chalk: f. Boucher 1765. f.

Provenance

Pierre-Louis-Paul Randon de Boisset [1709-1776]; (his estate sale, Paris, 27 February 1777, no. 356); Baron Nathaniel Mayer von Rothschild [1836-1905], Vienna; by inheritance to his nephew Baron Alphons de Rothschild [1878-1942], Vienna; (Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York) by 1953; Sydney J. Lamon, New York (sale, London, Christie's, 27 November 1973, lot 317); Harry Michaels (sale, London, Christie's, 11 December 1979, lot 158); (purchased by Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London, with Spencer Samuels, New York); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
Anonymous
Randon de Boisset, Pierre-Louis-Paul
Rothschild, Alphons de
Rothschild, Nathaniel Mayer von, Baron
Samuels & Company, Ltd., Spencer A.
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Andrea
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1953: Five Centuries of Drawings, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 1953, no. 173.

1982: Fragonard & His Friends: Changing Ideals in Eighteenth Century Art. Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1982-1983, no. 27, repro.

1983: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1983-85, no. 59, repro.

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 97, repro.

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Albertina, Vienna, 1986, no. 82, repro.

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 80, repro.

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 100, repro.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1995-1996, no. 91 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli), repro.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997, no cat.

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006-2007, no cat.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2009, no. 55, repro.

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2017, no cat.

Bibliography

1983: Matteson, Lynn R. "Old Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection." Pantheon. 41 (1983): 386-387.