- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1965.235
- People
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François Boucher, French (Paris 1703 - 1770 Paris)
- Title
- Reclining Nude
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- French
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Red and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black chalk and black ink, laid down on a decorated mount
- Dimensions
- 31.8 × 41.6 cm (12 1/2 × 16 3/8 in.)
57 × 67 × 4 cm (22 7/16 × 26 3/8 × 1 9/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- stamp: lower right, blind stamp: Addison
- inscription: lower center, brown ink: fr. Boucher
- stamp: old mount, blind stamp: ARD
- Provenance
- Alphonse Kann, St-Germain-en-Laye; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 6-8 December 1920, lot 74; Durlacher Brothers, London and New York (by c. 1925); John Nicolas Brown II, Providence; his partial gift; to Meta and Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs, 1965.235
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1965
- Object Number
- 1965.235
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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“French XVIII-Century Art", Notes (Fogg Art Museum), ed. John Coolidge, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1931), vol. 2, no. 6, June, pp. 310-16, pp. 312, 316
Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 596, p. 319, vol. 3, p. viii
William G. Constable, “The Nude: Showing a 5-Century Ideal", ArtNews, ed. Alfred M. Frankfurter, ARTnews (1946), vol. 44, no. 19, January, pp. 8-10, p. 10
William G. Constable, The Nude in Art: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, exh. cat., Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, 1946), cat. no. 6, p. 7
Paul J. Sachs, The Pocket Book of Great Drawings, Pocket Books, Inc. (New York, 1951), pp. 88-90
Paul Wescher and Ebria Feinblatt, A Catalogue of Italian, French, and Spanish Paintings: XIV-XVIII Century, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, 1954), p. 63
An Exhibition of Drawings, exh. cat., Colby College, Miller Library (Waterville, 1956), cat. no. 10, n.p.
Regina Shoolman Slatkin, François Boucher: An Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, exh. cat., Charles E. Slatkin Galleries (New York, 1957), cat. no. 4, n.p.
Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), cat. no. 32, n.p.
Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), cat. no. 32, n.p.
Agnes Mongan, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no. 32, p. 44, pl. 42, repr.
"Acquisitions", Acquisitions (Fogg Art Museum), ed. John Coolidge, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1965), pp. 17-58, p. 24
Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] : given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 29, n.p.
Alexandre Ananoff, L’Œuvre dessiné de François Boucher (1703–1770): catalogue raisonné, Libraire F. de Nobele (Paris, 1966), vol. 1, cat. no. 471, pp. 134-35
Daniel M. Mendelowitz, Drawing, Stanford University Press (Stanford, 1967), pp. 142, 331, 333
Regina Shoolman Slatkin, François Boucher in North American Collections: 100 Drawings, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, 1973), cat. no. 35, pp. x, xxi, 45
Nathan Goldstein, Figure Drawing: The Structure, Anatomy, and Expressive Design of Human Form, Prentice Hall (Englewood Cliffs, 1976), pp. 156-57
Denys Sutton, François Boucher: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the New York Botanical Garden, exh. cat., Wildenstein & Company (New York, 1980), cat. no. 45, p. 47
Nathan Goldstein, Figure Drawing: The Structure, Anatomy, and Expressive Design of Human Form, Prentice Hall (Englewood Cliffs, 1981), pp. 175, 183, 260
Terisio Pignatti and Maria Agnese Chiari Moretto Wiel, Il disegno: da Altamira a Picasso, A. Mondadori (Milan, 1981), p. 269
Georges Brunel, Boucher et les femmes, Flammarion (Paris, 1986), p. 58
Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), cat. no. 276, p. 236
Cara Dufour Denison, Rhoda Eitel-Porter, and Jennifer Tonkovich, The Age of Elegance: The Joan Taub Ades Collection, exh. cat., Pierpont Morgan Library (New York, 2011), pp. 24, 85-n.2
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 71, 281, repr. p. 66 as fig. 1
- Exhibition History
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The Nude in Art: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, 01/01/1946 - 02/03/1946
Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
An Exhibition of Drawings, Colby College, Miller Library, Waterville, 04/27/1956 - 05/23/1956
François Boucher: An Exhibition of Prints and Drawings, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, 01/28/1957 - 02/23/1957
French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 07/31/1958 - 09/28/1958; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 10/24/1958 - 01/02/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/03/1959 - 03/15/1959
Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
François Boucher in North American Collections: 100 Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Landover, 12/23/1973 - 03/17/1974; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 04/04/1974 - 05/12/1974
François Boucher: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the New York Botanical Garden, Wildenstein & Company, New York, 11/12/1980 - 12/19/1980
HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Rotation #2: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 03/11/2011 - 06/18/2011
Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/2017 - 05/07/2017
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