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In this powerful drawing, François Boucher’s model is so enveloped in yards of voluminous cloth that the fabric itself becomes the work’s subject and the drawing functions as an exercise in near abstraction. Boucher manipulated the black chalk to create outline and shadows, the white chalk to produce shimmering highlights, and the buff-colored paper to suggest flesh and give the fabric color and volume, in the process producing one of the finest drawings of 18th-century France.
The sheet may have served as the model for Cleopatra in the artist’s etched frontispiece opening an edition of Pierre Corneille’s tragedy Rodogune, Princess of Parthia.
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| Medium | chalk |
| Dimensions | 36 × 52 Cm |
| Certificate | Certificate not provided |
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Possibly, André Michel, François Boucher
Possibly, André Michel, François Boucher (J. Rouam, 1886), p. 126, no. 2280.
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Possibly Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), Paris....
Possibly Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), Paris. Possibly Bourlamaque collection
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exhibition
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...
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.
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given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
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sold, Artcurial, Paris, Nov....
sold, Artcurial, Paris, Nov. 13, 2013, lot 14. Sold by Eric Coatalem, Paris, to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Mar. 29, 2016
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Alastair Laing, The Drawings of François Boucher, London, 2003, under no. 51, p. 238, n.1 and p. 248, n. 2.
Alastair Laing, The Drawings of François Boucher, London, 2003, under no. 51, p. 238, n.1 and p. 248, n. 2.
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Le Figaro artistique, no. 62, Feb. 19, 1925, ill.
Le Figaro artistique, no. 62, Feb. 19, 1925, ill.
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sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dec....
sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dec. 17, 1924, lot. 125, to a private collection
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sold, Pierre Remy, Paris, Mar....
sold, Pierre Remy, Paris, Mar. 27, 1770, lot 22. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 7–8, 1888, lot. 23. D.S. collection
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