Venus and Cupid

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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

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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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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