Reclining Nymph

c. 1752

François Boucher

Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black and white chalk on brown laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.7 x 39.8 cm (8 15/16 x 15 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.9.4


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Peter Jones, Chester; Mr. Greene; 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

1932

  • Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1932, no. 772 (Commemorative catalogue, London, 1933: no. 644).

1982

  • Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 5.

2000

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

Bibliography

1989

  • Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures. Vol. 3, French before 1815. London, 1989: 76, under P486.

Wikidata ID

Q64569760


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