id: 166629
accession number: 2008.350
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Male Academy with Wings, 1745–50. François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Red chalk on cream laid paper; overall: 30.1 x 37.1 cm (11 7/8 x 14 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.350
title: Male Academy with Wings
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creation date: 1745–50
creation date earliest: 1745
creation date latest: 1750
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creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture: France, 18th century
technique: red chalk on cream laid paper
department: Drawings
collection: DR - French
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* François Boucher (French, 1703–1770) - artist
French Rococo artist who epitomizes the frivolous and elegant court life of France in the mid-18th century. During his early career he was closely associated with Watteau, many of whose paintings he engraved. Boucher was a successful and incredibly prolific artistic who had a major impact on both fine and decorative art of the 18th century. He is particularly noted for having reinvented the genre of the pastoral, creating images of shepherds and shepherdesses as sentimental lovers that was taken up in a variety of medium. Boucher's sketchy manner of painting helped to promote painterliness as an end in itself. This trend dominated French painting until the emergence of Neoclassicism, when the tides of criticism turned against Boucher and his followers.
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measurements: Overall: 30.1 x 37.1 cm (11 7/8 x 14 5/8 in.)
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description: cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
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inscription: verso, upper left, in graphite: M; center right, in graphite: [c--c 2ff?] [sideways]; lower right, in graphite: [illegible, partially erased inscription four lines long]; lower center, in graphite: M[illegible]; lower right, in graphite: pr cadre
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: A Painting in Focus: Jean-Bernard Restout's Sleep and the French Royal Academy
opening date: 1999-03-14T00:00:00
A Painting in Focus: Jean-Bernard Restout's Sleep and the French Royal Academy. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 14-May 23, 1999).
title: French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin
opening date: 2001-08-26T00:00:00
French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).
title: Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings
opening date: 2016-07-16T04:00:00
Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Foster, Carter E. "Jean-Bernard Restout's "sleep: Figure Study": Painting and Drawing from Life at the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture." Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 3 (1998): 48-85.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 68, fig. 27
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20079698
Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 8, p. 26-27
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.350/2008.350_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.350/2008.350_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.350/2008.350_full.tif