Aurora
c. 1733
François Boucher
Artist, French, 1703 - 1770
Artwork overview
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Medium
red and white chalk on brown laid paper, with later framing line in brown ink
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 37.5 x 23.5 cm (14 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
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Accession Number
2000.9.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Peter Jones, Chester; Mr. Green; Basil Lewis Dighton [d. 1930], London; The Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin, Washington, D.C., 1918; his wife, Therese Iselin Laughlin, Washington, D.C., 1941; their daughter, Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, New York, 1958; gift to NGA, 2000.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1973
François Boucher in North American Collections: 100 Drawings, NGA, Washington, D.C., and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1973-1974, no. 20 (Regina Shoolman Slatkin).
1982
Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 1.
2000
Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000 (no catalogue).
Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 180-181 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 118-119, 282, 2009, no. 50 (color).
Bibliography
1950
Schoolman, Regina, and Charles E. Slatkin. Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America. New York, 1950: no. 34.
1962
Agnes Mongan. Great Drawings of All Time. Vol. 3: French, Thirteenth Century to 1919. Edited by Ira Moskowitz. New York, 1962: no. 694.
1964
Valléry-Radot, Jean. French Drawings, Fifteenth Century through Géricault. New York, 1964: pl. 58.
1967
Schneider, Pierre. The World of Watteau. New York, 1967: 135, repro.
1974
Williams, Eunice. Review of François Boucher in North American Collections, _Master Drawings_12, no. 2 (Summer 1974): 173.
1976
Ananoff, Alexandre, with Daniel Wildenstein. François Boucher. 2 vols. Lausanne and Paris, 1976: 1:221, no. 86 (1), fig. 368.
1986
Jacoby, Beverly Schreiber. François Boucher's Early Development as a Draughtsman, 1720-1734. New York, 1986: 12, 265, III.A.1 (reprod.) (Garland Press publication of Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1982).
Laing, Alastair. François Boucher, 1703-1770. Exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts; Grand Palais, Paris, 1986-1987. New York, 1986: 136, 138, under no. 18.
1991
Bailey, Colin B. The Loves of the Gods, Mythological Painting from Watteau to David. Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Philadelphia Museum of Art; and Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1991-1992: 385-386, under nos. 43 and 44, 389, fig. 2.
2000
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Gifts and Acquisitions: François Boucher Aurora." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 24 (2000): 6.
2003
Laing, Alastair. The Drawings of François Boucher. Exh. cat. Frick Collection, New York, and Kimbell Art Museum. New York, 2003: 17 (fig. 17), 28.
Inscriptions
in black chalk at lower left: f. boucher; in brown ink on the old mount at upper left: 1; and at lower right: 114
Wikidata ID
Q64569754