Venus Reclining on a Dolphin

c. 1745

François Boucher

Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white on brown laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22 x 33.7 cm (8 11/16 x 13 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.217.14

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ananoff 1966, no. 801, State a

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Laura Bayer, Countess Sala [1874 - 1961] New York; (her sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 18 November 1961, no. 179); Louis Silver(?) [1902 - 1963], Chicago. (Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, Inc., New York); Norton Simon, Los Angeles, CA (sold New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., May 7, 1971, no. 206); sold to Armand Hammer Collection, Los Angeles, CA; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Exhibited with the Armand Hammer Collection from 1971, starting with Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City; except State Museum of Foreign Fine Arts, Riga, USSR, 1973; China Art Gallery, Beijing, 1982; and Huntington Galleries, West Virginia, 1982.

1973

  • François Boucher in North American Collections: 100 Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1973-1974, no. 28.

1982

  • François Boucher, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, 1982, no. 99, p. 122.

Bibliography

1949

  • Boux, Marcel. Inventaire du fonds francais, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle,Vol. 6, Paris, 1949: 367, no. 88 (engraving by Demarteau).

1966

  • Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessine de Francois Boucher (1703-1770). Paris, 1966.

1972

  • Slatkin, Regina Shoolman, "Some Boucher Drawings and Related Prints." Master Drawings, Vol. 10 (1972): 276-277, pl. 38.

Wikidata ID

Q64569750

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