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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Study of a Triton
    François Boucher. Study of a Triton, 1748/53. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005013

    Study of a Triton

    by François Boucher

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Charles-Emile Picard, Paris [Washington D.C. 1973-1974]. Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1965.

    Exhibition history

    Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "François Boucher in North American Collectons: 100 Drawings," December 23, 1973-March 17, 1974, cat. 69; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 4-May 12, 1974. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 72-73, cat. 35 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 54, cat. 42 (ill.). Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 9 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 28-29, cat. 9 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 94-95, cat. 39 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to The St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16,1986.

    Publications

    Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 1A12. Nathan Goldstein, Figure Drawing (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1993), p. 251 (ill.). Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “ ‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), p. 8. Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Head of a Sea God, 1730/40,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 46-47, cat. 18, fig. 17.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    François Boucher / French, 1703-1770
    Date
    1748/53
    Medium
    Black chalk, with stumping with traces of red chalk, heightened with white chalk and traces of graphite, on tan laid paper
    Dimensions
    22.1 × 27 cm (8 3/4 × 10 11/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Helen Regenstein Collection
    Accession no.
    1965.240R

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