Four Cherubs at Target Practice

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Medium

chalk manner in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 30 x 43.5 cm (11 13/16 x 17 1/8 in.)

sheet: 31.5 x 51 cm (12 3/8 x 20 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Leymarie 1896, no. 110

Accession Number

2002.156.1

Artists / Makers

Gilles Demarteau the Elder (artist) French, 1722 - 1776

François Boucher (artist after) French, 1703 - 1770

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Boucher inv. et del.; lower center in plate: A Paris chez Demarteau l'Ainé rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche; lower right in plate: Demarteau l'Aine sculp. / No 110

Provenance

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Ellwanger III and Mr. Gregory E. Mescha, A. Thompson, Mr.
Ellwanger, III, A. Thompson

Bibliography

1896: Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 110.

1978: Jean-Richard, Pierrette. L'oeuvre grave de François Boucher, dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Paris, 1978.