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François Boucher
French, 1703–1770
Head of a Girl
c. 1755
Image Caption
François Boucher, Head of a Girl, c. 1755, black and red chalk on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1889
Medium
black and red chalk on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 6 7/16 x 4 13/16 in. (16.3 x 12.3 cm)
Object Number
1955.1889
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. William Anthony.. A New Approach to Figure Drawing.. New York: Crown Publishers.. 1965.. Washington (DC): National Gallery of Art.. François Boucher in North American Collections, 100 Drawings. Dec. 23, 1973-March 17, 1974; Art Institute of Chicago, April 4-May 12, 1974. Cat. by Regina Shoolman Slatkin. Janet Kennedy.. Mir isskusstva and Russian Art 1898-1912. PhD diss. for Columbia.. New York: Garland.. 1977.. Georges Brunel.. Boucher et les femmes, Arts et Metiers Graphiques, Editions du Centre Pompidou.. Paris: Flammarion.. 1986..
Provenance
Earl of Dalhousie (L. 717ª);* Robert Sterling Clark.
*"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.