Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00005992Academic Study of a Reclining Male Nude
Inscriptions
Inscribed on an eighteenth century mount, verso, in pen and brown ink: "fragile / à Madame (Verger)/ à Dèves / fragile"
Provenance
Probably acquired directly from the artist by Jean-Claude Gaspard de Sireul (c. 1710/20–1781), rue Lévêque, Paris (“Le portefeuille de Mr Boucher"); probably sold, Paris, December 3, 1781, no. 219; possibly Mr. Payant [a dealer who purchased several drawings from this sale]. Mme Verger, Dèves Chateau, near Avignon [inscription in pen and brown ink, verso of frame]. Private collection, Avignon, c. 1920–80; given to her nephew, Comte de Chambure, Aix-en-Provence, France, from c. 1985; sold Paris, Hôtel Drouot, October 10, 2000 (as French School, 18th century; no cat.) to Michel Gierzod, Nantes, France, to 2008.
Exhibition history
Versailles, France, Musée Lambinet, "François Boucher dans les collections privées," October 12, 2004-January 9, 2005, pp. 106-107, cat. 48 (ill.), cat. by Françoise Joulie. Art Institute of Chicago, "Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions," August 27, 2016–January 29, 2017, no cat.
Publications
Carter Foster, French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin, exh. cat. (Cleveland, 2001), p. 26, fig. 1. Alexandre Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessiné de François Boucher (1703-1770), vol. I (Paris: F. de Nobele, Librairie, 1966), fig. 98, 528 (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
- c. 1750
- Medium
- Black chalk, with stumping and touches of red chalk, heightened with white chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 35.6 × 44.8 cm (14 1/16 × 17 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 2009.42
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