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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.51
People
François Boucher, French (Paris 1703 - 1770 Paris)
Title
Ceiling Study
Other Titles
Former Title: A Sketch for a Ceiling Decoration
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1728-1730
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298316

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue laid paper strips adhered to face
Dimensions
26.5 x 34.8 cm (10 7/16 x 13 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, black ink: f. Boucher
  • watermark: none visible: drawing is laid down
  • (not assigned): lower left: f. Boucher
  • inscription: mount, upper right, black ink: 43
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: no. 325 / 1898.51
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: Fr Boucher Von Quandt
  • inscription: mount, across bottom, graphite: Could be one of the family's drawing [illegible] touches by Boucher himself ([illegible)] / and [illegible] signature M.F.
  • inscription: mount, lower left, graphite: JFM / thinks / OK - ALC 5/2001 / his copy of Ital.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Von Quandt; John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda Lull Randall, 1892, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1898, inv. no. 1898.51

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.51
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Various draped female figures supported by clouds; they surround a seated, bearded man who rests his left arm on a book and his chin upon his right hand.

Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 325, p. 164 (as 18th-century Italian)
  • Alastair Laing, The Drawings of François Boucher, exh. cat., American Federation of Arts and Scala Publishers Ltd. (New York, 2003), pp. 25-26, repr.

Verification Level

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