Faith and Charity

1728/1731

François Boucher

Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk counterproof on oatmeal paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Regina Slatkin

  • Dimensions

    overall: 37 x 26.7 cm (14 9/16 x 10 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1993.38.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ananoff 1966, no. 938

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

A. Piat (sale, Paris, 22-23 March 1897, no. 6); private collection; (Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, by 1957); Regina Slatkin [1909-1999]; gift to NGA, 1993.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1957

  • François Boucher, Gallery Slatkin, New York, 1957, no. 23 (as The Triumph of Religion).

1987

  • François Boucher, His Circle and Influence, Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York, 1987, no. 7A.

Bibliography

1906

  • Michel, A. François Boucher, Paris, 1906: no. 859.

1966

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

1967

  • Slatkin, Regina. "Review of Alexandre Ananoff, François Boucher Catalogue Raisonné," Master Drawings V (1967): 62.

1986

  • Jacoby, Beverly Schreiber. François Boucher's Early Development as a Draughtsman 1720-1734, New York, 1986: 136, 249, fig. II.B.9.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower center in brown ink: f Boucher

Wikidata ID

Q64569764

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