id:			170510
accession number:	2012.95
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2012.95
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:34.699000

Head of a Young Woman, early 1730s. François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Oil on canvas; framed: 47 x 40 x 6 cm (18 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 32.4 x 25.6 cm (12 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2012.95

title:				Head of a Young Woman
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creation date:			early 1730s
creation date earliest:		1730
creation date latest:		1735
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - French 18th Century
type:		Painting
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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: Framed: 47 x 40 x 6 cm (18 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 32.4 x 25.6 cm (12 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Muriel Spiro Butkin (1915-2008), Shaker Heights, OH
	date: -2008
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	Estate of Muriel Butkin
	date: 2008-2012
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2012-
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