Art Institute of Chicago
Study of a Triton
François Boucher
- Date
- 1748/53
- Medium
- Black chalk, with stumping with traces of red chalk, heightened with white chalk and traces of graphite, on tan laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Boucher's drawings of the human anatomy reveal his thorough academic training. This vigorous drawing is a study for the triton in the painting Sunrise (1753) in the Wallace Collection, London, which was commissioned as a tapestry design in 1748.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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