Cleveland Museum of Art
Venus and Cupid
François BoucherLinkedCulture matchlcp-8b3762df2461
- 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
- Culture
- France, 18th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 122225
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Although this sketch is similar to drawings by Boucher, a talented pupil or another artist striving to emulate Boucher probably made it.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Gift of Richard Owen
- Provenance
- on an old mount now removed an apparently lost: FR (not in Lugt) [according to note on departmental catalogue sheet]
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