Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011360Pastries, Talmouses, All Hot
About the Artwork
François Boucher made the drawing as a print design for a series depicting Parisian tradespeople, titled the Cris de Paris (Criers of Paris), which consisted of 12 plates. Subjects in the series included this vendor of hot pastries and cheese puffs as well as a variety of other vendors such as a knife grinder, broom seller, chimney sweep, and vegetable seller. Boucher was known primarily for images epitomizing the elegant court life of France—nudes, decorative compositions, and pastorals—rather than so-called “low life” subjects such as street vendors. Boucher’s series struck a chord with the growing middle-class print-buying public in France, with its designs migrating to a variety of decorative arts and porcelain figurines.
Provenance
1772: possibly Gabriel Huquier sale, Joullain Paris, 1772 Verdelot family, France By descent to Madeleine Goudchaux née Verdelot (1930-2015), Tunisia, Paris, Lyon, Hossegor By descent to her heirs [Valérie and Christophe Tournier and Jacques Goudchaux, Bordeaux] Sold, Hotel des Ventes Bordeaux Quinconces 2022–25: (W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York, NY, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH June 9, 2025–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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
- c. 1737
- Medium
- black and red chalks on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.1 x 16.8 cm (9 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Accession no.
- 2025.140
More by François Boucher in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00011360
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