Design for a Frontispiece: Love Staying the Hand of Time by François Boucher — François Boucher. Design for a Frontispiece: Love Staying the Hand of Time. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

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Design for a Frontispiece: Love Staying the Hand of Time

by François Boucher

Quick Overview

Artist: François Boucher (French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris)
Medium: Black chalk
Dimensions: 23 7/8 x 16 1/16 in. (60.6 x 40.8 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Anne and Carl Stern Gift, 1957
Accession no.: 57.186

Provenance

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Open-access museum record · AT-00019041

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