A Nude Woman Reaching to the Right

c. 1769

François Boucher

Associated Names
François Boucher

Artist, French, 1703 - 1770

This drawing displays a person lying on their front with their upper body slightly raised, their head turned to the right, and both arms extended outward. Their back and the upper part of their legs are visible. The person's facial features are not fully visible, and they have hair styled in a bun. The person is not wearing any clothing, but there appears to be a cloth beneath them. The lines of the drawing are in white and gray against a tan background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on brown laid paper (formerly blue)

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith

  • Dimensions

    overall: 27.3 x 39.4 cm (10 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
    support: 35.3 x 47.3 cm (13 7/8 x 18 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1980.64.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ananoff 1966, no. 500

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Léon Michel-Lévy (sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 17-18 June 1925, no. 26), bought by Schoeller; Private collection ("Monsieur A.G.")(sale, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 8-9 May 1934, no. 84), bought by Cotnareau. Galerie Cailleux, Paris; to Robert H. and Clarice Smith, Washington, DC; gift to NGA in 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • François Boucher, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, and The Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, 1982, no. 121.

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., September 1983.

1996

  • Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, pp. 134-135.

2003

  • The Drawings of François Boucher, The Frick Collection, New York, and the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 2004, 24, 115, 116-117, 247, no. 38 (Alastair Laing) (exh. at Fort Worth only).

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 134-135, 283, no. 58 (color).

Bibliography

1932

  • Sterling, Charles. "Boucher et les O'Murphy," L'Amour de l'Art 13 (June 1932): 192, 194, fig. 19.

1966

  • Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Francois Boucher (1703-1770). Paris, 1966: 140, no. 500, fig. 92.

1976

  • Ananoff, Alexandre, with Daniel Wildenstein. François Boucher. 2 vols. Lausanne and Paris, 1976: 2:302, no. 674 (Dessins, no. 2).

1986

  • Laing, Alastair, et al. François Boucher, 1703-1770. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts; and Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris. New York, 1986: 319, drawing no. 4.

Markings

On the old mount at lower right, blind stamp of the mount-maker, J.B. Glomy (Lugt 1120)

Wikidata ID

Q64569748

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