Venus

c. 1754

François Boucher

Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk with touches of red chalk, heightened with white chalk on gray paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.5 x 40 cm (8 7/8 x 15 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.9.5


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

1917

  • Drawings by Deceased Masters, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1917, no. 87.

1932

  • French Art, 1200 - 1900, Burlington House, London, 1932, no. 766 (Commemorative catalogue, London, 1933: 142, no. 645, pl. 170).

1982

  • Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 6.

2000

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

Bibliography

1950

  • Shoolman, R., and C. E. Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America. New York, 1950: no. 36.

1989

  • Ingamells, John. The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures. Vol. 3, French before 1815. London, 1989: 52, under no. P438.

2000

  • Richard, Paul. "Classic Examples of Peer Pleasure," The Washington Post (Sunday, August 27, 2000): G6.

Wikidata ID

Q64569761


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