François Boucher
French, 1703-1770
Study of a Triton
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François Boucher
French, 1703-17701748/53
Study of a Triton
François Boucher French, 1703-1770 →chalkdrawings (visual works)
Date
1748/53
Medium
Black chalk, with stumping with traces of red chalk, heightened with white chalk and traces of graphite, on tan laid paper
Dimensions
22.1 × 27 cm (8 3/4 × 10 11/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Helen Regenstein Collection
Boucher's drawings of the human anatomy reveal his thorough academic training. This vigorous drawing is a study for the triton in the painting Sunrise (1753) in the Wallace Collection, London, which was commissioned as a tapestry design in 1748.
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