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1750/1765
Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

Artwork overview
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Medium
brown and black chalk heightened with white on brown laid paper
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Credit Line
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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