Danae Receiving the Golden Shower, 1757

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Medium

red, white, and black chalk with gouache

Dimensions

Overall: 31.5 x 48 cm (12 3/8 x 18 7/8 in.)
support: 39.1 x 55 cm (15 3/8 x 21 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Ananoff 1966, no. 732

Accession Number

1963.15.4

Artists / Makers

François Boucher (artist) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

in unknown hand, lower left: f.Boucher 1757

Provenance

Jean Claude Francois Perrin, marquis de Cypierre [1727- 1789]; (sale, Paris, 10 March 1845, no. 174);[1] Etienne Arago [1802- 1892] (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 8-9 February 1872, no. 112). Ludwig Neumann, London. Richard Owen, Paris; Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art

[1] Possibly the drawing was owned by Monsieur de Montulle and was on sale in Paris, 22-30 December 1783 as cited in François Boucher in North American collections: 100 drawings, Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, 1973. However, in the sale catalogue of that date the drawing could not be found.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Arago, Etienne
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Neumann, Ludwig
Owen, Richard
Perrin, Jean Claude François, marquis de Cypierre

Bibliography

1966: Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessine de Francois Boucher (1703-1770). Paris, 1966.

1973: Slatkin 1973, 76.

1977: Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: dK506, fig.283.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 675, no. 1081, color repro.