DrawingsFrench18th century

Reclining Nude

18th century

Artists

François BoucherArtist

Classification

Drawings

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

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

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.)

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

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