Second Day, Seventh Story: The Duke of Athens Contemplating the Sleeping Princess Alatiel, c. 1757

Not on View

Preliminary Drawings for Boccaccio's "Decamerone": vol.1, 19

pen and black ink with brown wash over traces of red chalk on laid paper, laid down

overall (to the outer framing line): 11.2 x 5.8 cm (4 7/16 x 2 5/16 in.)

1942.9.703

Hubert François Gravelot (artist) French, 1699 - 1773

François Boucher (artist after) French, 1703 - 1770

inscribed by Gravelot in pen and gray ink over traces of red chalk below the image: F.Boucher inv; and at lower center: II. Journée, Nouvelle 7.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 146-149, 284, no. 63d (color).

1877: Portalis, Baron Roger de. Les dessinateurs d'illustrations au 18e siècle. 2 parts in 4 vols. Paris, 1877, 1 (pt. 2): 276, 291 (the set).

1880: Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. L'Art du XVIIIe siècle. 2 vols. Paris, 1880-1882, 2: 41, 132 (the set).

1912: Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures de XVIIIe siècle. 6th ed., rev. and augmented by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col. 160 (the set).

1921: Lugt, Frits. Les marques de collections de dessins & d'estampes; marques estampillées et écrites de collections. Amsterdam, 1921: 175, under no. 996 (sale of 1870) (the set).

1923: Ricci, Seymour de. A Checklist of the More Important French Illustrated Books of the Eighteenth Century. Philadelphia, 1923: [3] (the set).

1923: Ricci, Seymour de. The Roederer Library of French Books, Prints, and Drawings of the 18th Century. Philadelphia, 1923: [4-7] (the set).

1976: Ananoff, Alexandre, with Daniel Wildenstein. François Boucher. 2 vols. Lausanne and Paris, 1976: 1:83, fig. 121 (as François Boucher).