Sancho Fleeing from the Servants of the Duke, 1735/1736

Not on View

Medium

black chalk and gray wash heightened with white gouache on light brown laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 27.3 x 33.9 cm (10 3/4 x 13 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Arthur L. Liebman

Catalogue Raisonné

Ananoff 1976, undescribed

Accession Number

1992.87.9

Artists / Makers

François Boucher (artist) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in dark brown ink: F. Boucher; in pen and light brown ink at lower left, partially concealed by the white heightening: Boucher; on the verso, in pen and brown ink at lower left: F. Boucher/[illeg.] L'empereur; numbered in graphite at center: 3396; and at upper left in another hand, 325

Provenance

according to Masson, probably Huquier (sale, 1771, among the "desseins encadrées"); Paignon-Dijonval, 1810; J. Masson (sale, Paris, 7-8 May 1923, no. 26); (Rosenberg & Stiebl, New York); Arthur Liebman [d. 1991], Lake Forest, IL; bequest 1992, to NGA

Associated Names

Dijonval, Gilbert Paignon
Huquier, Gabriel
Liebman, Arthur, Estate of
Masson, Jean
Stiebel, Ltd.

Exhibition History

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997 (no cat.).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 120-121, 282, no. 51 (color).

Bibliography

1810: Bénard, Monsieur. Cabinet de M. Paignon Dijonval, état détaillé et raisonné des dessins et estampes dont il est composé. Paris, 1810: 144, no. 3396.

1880: Mantz, Paul. Boucher, Le Moyne, Natoire. Paris, 1880: 86.

1906: Michel, André, Louis Soullié, and Charles Masson. François Boucher. Catalogue raisonné de L'Oeuver peint et dessiné. Paris [1906]: no. 2618.

1978: Jean-Richard, Pierrette. L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Paris, 1978: 81, under no. 207.