Domestic Scene: Mother with Two Small Children before a Mantelpiece

Prints and Drawings

n.d.

François Boucher
French, 1703-1770

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: François Boucher
Title: Domestic Scene: Mother with Two Small Children before a Mantelpiece
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1723–1770
Medium: Black crayon, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Dimensions: 22.3 × 18.4 cm (8 13/16 × 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Helen Regenstein Collection
Reference Number: 1960.824
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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.

The Art Institute of Chicago, “The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings,” 1974, pp. 74-75, cat. 36 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.

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.

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