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Project for a Corner Motif of a Painted Ceiling
François Boucher1740
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Nude and draped figures grouped about an urn with putti above holding heavy drapery.
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Details
- Title: Project for a Corner Motif of a Painted Ceiling
- Creator: François Boucher
- Creator Lifespan: 1703/1770
- Date Created: 1740
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium: Pen and brown ink, black chalk on thin tracing paper
- Provenance: From the Collection of Léon Decloux.
- Paper Support: Very thin tracing paper
- Exhibitions: "François Boucher," Charles Slatkin Galleries. New York, February 1957 (not in ex. cat.)
- Dimensions: 27.9 x 22.2 cm (11 x 8 3/4 in.)
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