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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.50
People
François Boucher, French (Paris 1703 - 1770 Paris)
Title
Ceiling Study
Other Titles
Former Title: A Design for a Ceiling Decoration
Former Title: Two Figures
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/312312

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper strips adhered to face
Dimensions
19.3 x 26.2 cm (7 5/8 x 10 5/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: lower left, black ink: boucher. del.
  • watermark: none visible: drawing is laid down
  • (not assigned): lower left, black ink: boucher. del.
  • inscription: mount, lower right, graphite: Von Quandt Cabinet / no. 324 / 1898.50

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. 1898.50

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
1898.50
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The woman at the right is seated on the ground, holding her drapery about her, her right breast bare; slightly behind her at the left stands another female figure, turned left; carrying a spray of flowers in her left 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. 324, p. 164 (as 18th-century Italian)

Verification Level

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