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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

Medium

Red and white chalk on light tan antique laid paper, partial framing lines in black chalk and black ink, laid down

Dimensions

32 x 41.9 cm (12 5/8 x 16 1/2 in.)
framed: 57 x 67 x 4 cm (22 7/16 x 26 3/8 x 1 9/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• stamp: bottom right, blind: Addison stamp
• inscription: bottom, center left, brown ink: fr. Boucher

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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Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), cat. no. 596, fig. 305, repr.

Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), cat. no. 32, pl. 48, repr.

Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), cat. no. 32, pl. 42, repr.

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.

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, repr.

Regina Shoolman Slatkin, François Boucher in North American Collections: 100 Drawings, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C., 1973), cat. no. 35, pp. xx, xxi n. 1, 45, repr.

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, fig. 45, repr.

Georges Brunel, Boucher et les femmes, Flammarion (Paris, 1986), p. 58, repr.

Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), cat. no. 276, p. 236, repr.

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, fig. 1, repr.

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

Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947

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

Drawings by Francois Boucher, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 12/22/1973 - 03/15/1974; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 04/01/1974 - 05/20/1974

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

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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