Aurora Heralding the Arrival of the Morning Sun

c. 1765

François Boucher

Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brown and black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on buff laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dian Woodner

  • Dimensions

    overall (octagonal): 46 x 40.2 cm (18 1/8 x 15 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.168.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(De Bayser S.A., Paris); purchased 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 67.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 130-131, 253, no. 56 (color).

2023

  • Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

1906

  • Michel, André, Louis Soullié, and Charles Masson. François Boucher. Catalogue raisonné de L'Oeuvre peint et dessiné. Paris, [1906]: no. 451.

2007

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "François Boucher, Aurora Heralding the Arrival of the Morning Sun," National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 36 (Spring 2007): 21-22, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q64569763

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