François Boucher
Tendresse maternelle (Jeune Femme Assise sur un tonneau avec un petit garçon et un chien) (Maternal Tenderness)
Artist
François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)French, 1703–1770
CultureFrench
Titles
- Tendresse maternelle (Jeune Femme Assise sur un tonneau avec un petit garçon et un chien) (Maternal Tenderness)
Datec. 1765
MediumBlack chalk with stumping heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper
DimensionsSheet (irregular): 14 9/16 × 9 3/16 in. (37 × 23.3 cm)
Mount (irregular): 18 7/16 × 13 3/8 in. (46.8 × 34 cm)
Mount (irregular): 18 7/16 × 13 3/8 in. (46.8 × 34 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Art + Paper 2016 and the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment
Object number2016.139
Not on view
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Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed on mount in pen and brown ink, lower right: dessiné par Boucher chez Me la Mise de / Mesgrigny
Verso of mount: [none]
Verso of mount: [none]
Signed and dated: F. Boucher 176 [...]
Recto of mount: Dry-stamp, lower right: G [Jean-Baptiste Glomy (1711-1786), Merchant haberdasher and Parisian expert (Lugt 1119)]
Verso of backboard: Printed label: François BOUCHER / (Paris, 1703-1770) // Tendresse maternelle / (jeune femme assis sur un tonneau avec un petit garçon et un chien) // Circa 1765 / Pierre noire, estompe, rehauts de craie blanche sur papier initialement bleu / Annoté sur le montage (Glomy) en bas à droite à l'encre brune : / dessiné par Boucher chez Me la Mise de /Mesgringny / 36.5 x 23.3 cm / Galerie Alexis Bordes
Watermark: [none known]
Verso of backboard: Printed label: François BOUCHER / (Paris, 1703-1770) // Tendresse maternelle / (jeune femme assis sur un tonneau avec un petit garçon et un chien) // Circa 1765 / Pierre noire, estompe, rehauts de craie blanche sur papier initialement bleu / Annoté sur le montage (Glomy) en bas à droite à l'encre brune : / dessiné par Boucher chez Me la Mise de /Mesgringny / 36.5 x 23.3 cm / Galerie Alexis Bordes
Watermark: [none known]
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