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1747 · Art Institute of Chicago

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François BoucherWikidata

painting by François Boucher

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Date
1747Wikidata
Art Institute of Chicago: 1747
Medium
Oil on canvasArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
80.8 × 68.5 cmArt Institute of Chicago
Wikidata: 80.8 × 68.5 cm
Gallery
Gallery 216Art Institute of Chicago
Materials
oil paint, canvasWikidata
Inventory no.
1973.304Wikidata
Credit line
Martha E. Leverone EndowmentArt Institute of Chicago

Provenance

Where it has been

  1. 1973 –
    Art Institute of Chicago
    high confidenceWikidata · collection

Exhibition historyArt Institute of Chicago

Probably Paris, Salon, 1747, no. 33bis. as deux pastorales, aussi en forme ovale. Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, La Douce France (Det ljuva Frankrike), 1964, no. 16. Art Institute of Chicago, François Boucher in North American Collections: 100 Drawings, 1973/1974, not in catalogue. Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, no. 9. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, François Boucher 1703-1770, February 17-Mary 4, 1986, no. 53; Detroit Institute of Arts, May 27-August 17, 1986; Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, September 19, 1986-January 5, 1987. Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard, Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, 2003/2004, no. 55, traveled to Washington, National Gallery of Art and Berlin, Altes Museum. Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Casanova: The Seduction of Europe, August 27, 2018 - December 31, 2017, pp. 149-151, fig. 73; 309 no. 73; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, February 10 – May 28, 2018; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, July 8 – October 8, 2018 [Boston Only]
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