Study of a Draped Woman Leaning on a Pedestal

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Study of a Draped Woman Leaning on a Pedestal

François BoucherLinkedCulture matchlcp-5df9b5ab1c88

Date
1759/61
Medium
Black chalk, with stumping, and white chalk on buff laid paper, laid down onto thick modern laid paperboard
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
244908

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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Credit line
Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Provenance
Possibly Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), Paris. Possibly Bourlamaque collection; sold, Pierre Remy, Paris, Mar. 27, 1770, lot 22. Sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 7–8, 1888, lot. 23. D.S. collection; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Dec. 17, 1924, lot. 125, to a private collection; sold, Artcurial, Paris, Nov. 13, 2013, lot 14. Sold by Eric Coatalem, Paris, to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago, Mar. 29, 2016; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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