The Presentation in the Temple

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Presentation in the Temple

François BoucherLinkedCulture matchlcp-8b3762df2461

Date
c. 1770
Medium
pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, and black chalk, heightened with white paint; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Culture
France, 18th century
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
107008

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A religious scene depicting a figure holding a child surrounded by angels and onlookers.

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Late in his career, François Boucher adopted a drawing style characterized by strong pen lines and loosely brushed washes. This sheet, which dates from that period, depicts the blind priest Simeon, at left, who was promised that he would see the Messiah before his death. When the Christ child was brought into the temple near him, Simeon regained his sight. Boucher emphasized the miraculous event by showing divine light streaming down onto the priest from the dove above, which represents the Holy Spirit. The drawing is similar to an oil sketch (Louvre, Paris) that Boucher completed during the last year of his life -- one of the very last projects he ever completed. This drawing was probably a sketch for an oil painting that Boucher was unable to complete before his death.

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Credit line
Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
Provenance
?-1770: Probably Barthélemy-Augustin Blondel d'Azincourt [1719-1783], Paris | 1770: (Paris, Cabinet curieux...de M. d'Azincourt, April 18, 1770, no. 61, sold to Chariot) | 1770-1788: M. Chariot, Paris | 1788: (possibly Hotel de Bullion, Paris, Collection choisie...du Cabinet de M. Chariot, January 28, 1788, no. 128, sold to Pierre-François Basan) | 1788-?: Possibly Pierre-François Basan [1723-1797], Paris | ?-?: Jan Baptist de Graaf [1742-1804; Lugt 1120], Amsterdam | ?-1883: Possibly Eugénie Tripier-LeFranc [1805-1872], Paris | 1883: (Paris, Tripier-LeFranc sale, June 5-7, 1883, no. 45) | by 1900-after 1914: John Postle Heseltine [1843-1929; Lugt 1507], London | ?-?: (Richard Owen, Paris) | ?-1925: Leonard C. Hanna Jr., Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 1925-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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