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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.21
People
School of François Boucher, French (Paris 1703 - 1770 Paris)
Title
Girl Releasing a Bird from a Cage
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1763
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299436

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk counterproof on cream antique laid paper
Technique
Counterproof
Dimensions
23.4 x 19 cm (9 3/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Signed Date: 1763
  • inscription: lower right: [illegible] 1763
  • watermark: None

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Tucker of Exeter. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

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
1898.21
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 597

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