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Study of a Triton
François Boucher · 1748/53
Provenance
Ownership history
- Charles-Emile Picard, Paris [Washington D.C. 1973-1974]. Sold by Jacques Seligmann and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1965.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "François Boucher in North American Collectons: 100 Drawings," December 23, 1973-March 17, 1974, cat. 69; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 4-May 12, 1974.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 72-73, cat. 35 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 54, cat. 42 (ill.).
- Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 9 (ill.).
- Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 28-29, cat. 9 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 94-95, cat. 39 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to The St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16,1986.
Literature
Published references
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 1A12.
- Nathan Goldstein, Figure Drawing (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1993), p. 251 (ill.).
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “ ‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), p. 8.
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Head of a Sea God, 1730/40,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 46-47, cat. 18, fig. 17.
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