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Apollo
François Boucherc. 1752
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Apollo
- Creator: François Boucher
- Date Created: c. 1752
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 54.4 x 36.5 cm (21 7/16 x 14 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Possibly Aignan-Thomas Desfriches (1715-1800), first director of the Academy of the Arts of Design, Orléans; École académique et pratique de peinture, sculpture, architecture et arts dépendants du dessein d'Orléans, founded 1786, which later became the École régionale des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans (sim. To L.Supp. 1999b; perhaps a version used before the Revolution); deaccessioned when the schools architectural drawings were transferred to the Musée d'Orléans in 1907. Maître Georges Ryaux, Paris, 1954; Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, New York; to David Daniels, New York (sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 April 1978, no. 80); to Robert H. and Clarice Smith, Washington; gift to NGA in 1980.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: black chalk and stumping, heightened with white chalk on greenish-gray laid paper
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