About This Artwork
François Boucher
French, 1703-1770
Domestic Scene: Mother with Two Small Children before a Mantelpiecen.d.
Black crayon, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
223 x 184 mm
Helen Regenstein Collection, 1960.824
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 74-75, cat. 36 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
Publication History
H. S. Giolkowski, "Old Master Drawings from the Jean Masson Collection," International Studio, LXXVII (September 1923), p. 480 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 1B1.
Ownership History
Jean Masson (died 1933), Paris [Lugt Suppl. 1494a; Giolkowski 1923]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 7-8, 1923, lot 25, as "La Bonne Mere." Sold, Nicolas Rauch, Geneva, June 13-15, 1960, lot 43. Sold by the Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1960.