Head of a Boy

c. 1740

Edme Bouchardon

Artist, French, 1698 - 1762

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 36.3 x 24 cm (14 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1987.37.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified collector (N[W?] and owl, Lugt undescribed). P. & D. Colnaghi, London; purchased by Armand Hammer for the NGA in 1987.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2016

  • Edme Bouchardon de sanquine et de marble, Musée du Louvre, Paris; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2016-2017.

Bibliography

1987

  • Colnaghi. Old Master Drawings, London: 5/12/87 - 5/29/87, no.46.

1989

  • Hammer 1989, 2nd entry.

2004

  • Oeuvres sur papier, Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris, 2004, n.p., (under Bouchardon, Portrait d'un jeune garçon, as a related work).

Watermarks

Grapes

Wikidata ID

Q64556759

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