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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.235
People
François Boucher, French (Paris 1703 - 1770 Paris)
Title
Reclining Nude
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296780

Physical Descriptions

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
  • stamp: lower right, blind stamp: Addison
  • inscription: lower center, brown ink: fr. Boucher
  • stamp: old mount, blind stamp: ARD

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
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

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

  • “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
  • Nathan Goldstein, Figure Drawing: The Structure, Anatomy, and Expressive Design of Human Form, Pearson Prentice Hall (Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2004), repr. as fig. 4.84 on p. 174, in b/w
  • Cara Dufour Denison, Rhoda Eitel-Porter, and Jennifer Tonkovich, The Age of Elegance: The Joan Taub Ades Collection, exh. cat., The Morgan Library & Museum (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
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, The Painter's Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 2018), repr. as fig. 1.19 on p. 25
  • Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 62, repr., p. 17

Exhibition History

  • 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; The Museum of Modern Art, 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
  • The Heavenly Twins: Edward W. Forbes, Paul J. Sachs and the Building of a Collection, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/23/1995 - 12/17/1995
  • 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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