The Death of the Virgin

1750s

François Boucher

Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink and brown wash over red chalk on cream laid paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler

  • Dimensions

    overall: 11 x 14.4 cm (4 5/16 x 5 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.9.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

The Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin, Washington, D.C.; 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

1982

  • Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 4.

2000

  • Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000 (no catalogue).

2012

  • The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012

Bibliography

1984

  • Michel, Marianne Roland. Watteau: Un artiste au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 1984: 117, 137.

Markings

below the drawing at lower right: blindstamp of the mountmaker Glomy (Lugt 1119)

Wikidata ID

Q64569759


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