Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005787Venus Commanding Vulcan to Make Arms for Aeneas
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, recto, lower right, in brown chalk: "F. Boucher / 1767"; inscribed verso, center on mount, in graphite: "SCHOOL / FRANCOIS BOUCHER"; lower center on mount, in graphite: "pour c. à venir"; upper left on mount, in graphite: "DX 276–3"
Provenance
Possibly P.-J.-O. Bergeret de Goncourt's (died 1785) posthumous sale, Paris, Apr. 24-9, 1786, lot 151. Possibly sold, Feb. 19-20, 1869. Estate of Reine Maria Duysburgh-Bouillet. Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 11, 1989, lot 132, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime," 1998-1999, checklist 29. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 57, cat. 30 (ill.).
Publications
Beverly Schreiber Jacoby, "Boucher's Late Brown Chalk Composition Drawings," Master Drawings 30:3 (Fall 1992), pp. 261, 267, fig. 13, p. 283, cat 11. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 57, cat. 30 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- François Boucher / French, 1703-1770
- Date
- 1767
- Medium
- Various brown chalks, with touches of brush and brown chalk wash, heightened with white chalk, on cream laid paper, prepared with a light brown wash ground, laid down on heavy buff laid paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 30.4 × 20.5 cm (12 × 8 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 33 × 23 cm (13 × 9 1/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.901
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