Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006188Study of a Draped Woman Leaning on a Pedestal
Inscriptions
Inscription, verso, l.l.: "74"
Provenance
Possibly Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), Paris. Possibly Bourlamaque collection; sold, Pierre Remy, Paris, Mar. 27, 1770, lot 22. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 7–8, 1888, lot. 23. D.S. collection; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dec. 17, 1924, lot. 125, to a private collection; sold, Artcurial, Paris, Nov. 13, 2013, lot 14. Sold by Eric Coatalem, Paris, to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Mar. 29, 2016; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp. 64-65, cat. 25, p. 138, GC 69, p. 118, fig. 25.3., traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
Possibly, André Michel, François Boucher (J. Rouam, 1886), p. 126, no. 2280. Le Figaro artistique, no. 62, Feb. 19, 1925, ill. Alastair Laing, The Drawings of François Boucher, London, 2003, under no. 51, p. 238, n.1 and p. 248, n. 2.
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
- 1759/61
- Medium
- Black chalk, with stumping, and white chalk on buff laid paper, laid down onto thick modern laid paperboard
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 52.3 × 36 cm (20 5/8 × 14 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 54.5 × 38.7 cm (21 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.835
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