A Nude Woman Reaching to the Right

c. 1769

François Boucher

Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on brown laid paper (formerly blue)

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith

  • Dimensions

    overall: 27.3 x 39.4 cm (10 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
    support: 35.3 x 47.3 cm (13 7/8 x 18 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1980.64.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ananoff 1966, no. 500


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Léon Michel-Lévy (sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 17-18 June 1925, no. 26), bought by Schoeller; Private collection ("Monsieur A.G.")(sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 8-9 May 1934, no. 84), bought by Cotnareau. Galerie Cailleux, Paris; to Robert H. and Clarice Smith, Washington, DC; gift to NGA in 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • François Boucher, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, and The Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, 1982, no. 121.

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., September 1983.

1996

  • Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, pp. 134-135.

2003

  • The Drawings of François Boucher, The Frick Collection, New York, and the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 2004, 24, 115, 116-117, 247, no. 38 (Alastair Laing) (exh. at Fort Worth only).

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 134-135, 283, no. 58 (color).

Bibliography

1932

  • Sterling, Charles. "Boucher et les O'Murphy," L'Amour de l'Art 13 (June 1932): 192, 194, fig. 19.

1966

  • Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Francois Boucher (1703-1770). Paris, 1966: 140, no. 500, fig. 92.

1976

  • Ananoff, Alexandre, with Daniel Wildenstein. François Boucher. 2 vols. Lausanne and Paris, 1976: 2:302, no. 674 (Dessins, no. 2).

1986

  • Laing, Alastair, et al. François Boucher, 1703-1770. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts; and Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. New York, 1986: 319, drawing no. 4.

Markings

On the old mount at lower right, blind stamp of the mount-maker, J.B. Glomy (Lugt 1120)

Wikidata ID

Q64569748


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