About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- François Boucher
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Title
- Venus Commanding Vulcan to Make Arms for Aeneas
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1767
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Medium
- Various brown chalks, with touches of brush and brown chalk wash, heightened with white chalk, on cream laid paper, prepared with a light brown wash ground, laid down on heavy buff laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Signed and dated, recto, lower right, in brown chalk: "F. Boucher / 1767"; inscribed verso, center on mount, in graphite: "SCHOOL / FRANCOIS BOUCHER"; lower center on mount, in graphite: "pour c. à venir"; upper left on mount, in graphite: "DX 276–3"
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Dimensions
- Primary support: 30.4 × 20.5 cm (12 × 8 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 33 × 23 cm (13 × 9 1/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 2013.901
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/151452/manifest.json
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