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1750/1765

François Boucher

Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brown and black chalk heightened with white on brown laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall: 28.7 x 44.6 cm (11 5/16 x 17 9/16 in.)
    support: 39.6 x 55.9 cm (15 9/16 x 22 in.)

  • Accession

    1978.4.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jean Cailleux

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 83.

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2012

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

Bibliography

1976

  • Ananoff, Alexandre, with Daniel Wildenstein. François Boucher. 2 vols. Lausanne and Paris, 1976: 171, fig. 222.

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: 164, fig. 1 (color).

Inscriptions

in later hand, lower right: Boucher

Markings

BS: Francois Renaud (Lugt Supp.1042)

Wikidata ID

Q64569744

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