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François Boucher

Venus appuyee sur son cher Adonis ..., 1767

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series Title

Album of Drawings & Prints for "Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide"

Medium

black and white chalk on faded blue laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 31.6 x 21.8 cm (12 7/16 x 8 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.1050

Artists / Makers

François Boucher (artist) French, 1703 - 1770

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Inscription

lower left: F Boucher / 1767

Provenance

J.P. Heseltine (Lugt 1507)

Associated Names

Widener, Joseph E.

Exhibition History

1944: French Prints and Drawings of the XVIIIth Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1944-1945, no catalogue.

1977: Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 106.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

Bibliography

1973: Slatkin 1973, 92.

2009: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009: 132, fig. 2 (color).

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