Design for a Funeral Monument, c. 1767

Not on View

Medium

black chalk and stumping with touches of graphite, heightened with white, on brown laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 29.6 x 17.7 cm (11 5/8 x 6 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Arthur L. Liebman

Catalogue Raisonné

Ananoff 1966, undescribed

Accession Number

1992.87.28

Artists / Makers

François Boucher (artist) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left in brown ink: f. B. [with paraph]

Provenance

Chevalier de Damery, Paris [d. 1803] (Lugt 2862); (sale Paris, May 14, 1906, no. 10); Baron Nathaniel Mayer von Rothschild [1836-1905], Vienna; by inheritance to his nephew, Baron Alphons de Rothschild [1878-1942];[1] his widow, Baroness Clarice de Rothschild [1894-1967]. Arthur Liebman [d. 1991], Lake Forest, IL; bequest 1992 to NGA

[1] This drawing was among the Rothschild collections confiscated by the Nazis in Austria in 1938 and stored at the monastery in Kremsmünster, from where it was later evacuated to the salt mine at Alt Aussee. It was discovered there, and in July 1945 was sent to the Munich Central Collecting Point (Munich Central Collecting Point Property Card no. 4804, US National Archives, copy NGA curatorial files). On 15 December 1945 it was returned to Kremsmünster and placed under the control of the Landeskonservator of Land Oberoesterreich. It was restituted to the Rothschild family on 4 October 1947 (AR 711, export license Zl 5905/47 dated 3 October 1947, Bundesdenkmalamt, Vienna, copies in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Damery, Chevalier de
Liebman, Arthur, Estate of
Munich Central Collecting Point
Rothschild, Alphons de
Rothschild, Clarice de, Baroness
Rothschild, Nathaniel Mayer von, Baron

Exhibition History

1973: François Boucher in North American Collections: 100 Drawings. National Galley of Art, Washington and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1973, no. 87.

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

Bibliography

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