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Design for a Funeral Monument
François Boucherc. 1767
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Design for a Funeral Monument
- Creator: François Boucher
- Date Created: c. 1767
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 29.6 x 17.7 cm (11 5/8 x 6 15/16 in.)
- Provenance: Chevalier de Damery, Paris [d. 1803] (Lugt 2862); (sale Paris, May 14, 1906, no. 10); Baron Nathaniel Mayer von Rothschild [1836-1905], Vienna; by inheritance to his nephew, Baron Alphons de Rothschild [1878-1942];[1] his widow, Baroness Clarice de Rothschild [1894-1967]. Arthur Liebman [d. 1991], Lake Forest, IL; bequest 1992 to NGA [1] This drawing was among the Rothschild collections confiscated by the Nazis in Austria in 1938 and stored at the monastery in Kremsmünster, from where it was later evacuated to the salt mine at Alt Aussee. It was discovered there, and in July 1945 was sent to the Munich Central Collecting Point (Munich Central Collecting Point Property Card no. 4804, US National Archives, copy NGA curatorial files). On 15 December 1945 it was returned to Kremsmünster and placed under the control of the Landeskonservator of Land Oberoesterreich. It was restituted to the Rothschild family on 4 October 1947 (AR 711, export license Zl 5905/47 dated 3 October 1947, Bundesdenkmalamt, Vienna, copies in NGA curatorial files).
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: black chalk and stumping with touches of graphite, heightened with white, on brown laid paper
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