Venus appuyee sur son cher Adonis ...
1767
Artist, French, 1703 - 1770
Artwork overview
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Medium
black and white chalk on faded blue laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 31.6 x 21.8 cm (12 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1942.9.1050
Associated Artworks
See all 36 artworksAlbum of Preliminary Drawings and Prints for "Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide" (volume 7)
Various Artists
1767
Apres le festin donne aux noces de Pirithous ...
Charles Eisen
1768
Polyphème après avoir chanté les louanges de Galatée l'apperçoit aux pieds du Rocher qui s'entretenoit avec Acis
Simon Charles Miger
1769
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
J.P. Heseltine (Lugt 1507)
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1944
French Prints and Drawings of the XVIIIth Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1944-1945, no catalogue.
1977
Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 106.
1997
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.
Bibliography
1973
Slatkin 1973, 92.
2009
Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009: 132, fig. 2 (color).
Inscriptions
lower left: F Boucher / 1767
Wikidata ID
Q64569742