Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011235Venus and Cupid
About the Artwork
Although this sketch is similar to drawings by Boucher, a talented pupil or another artist striving to emulate Boucher probably made it.
Provenance
on an old mount now removed an apparently lost: FR (not in Lugt) [according to note on departmental catalogue sheet]
Exhibition history
Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960). French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982). Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
- Date
- second or third quarter 18th century
- Medium
- Black chalk with stumping heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20.8 x 32.6 cm (8 3/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard Owen
- Accession no.
- 1942.538
More by François Boucher in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00011235
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