id:			87275
accession number:	2017.218
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.218
updated:		2024-03-26 01:55:58.332000

Seated Woman Holding a Bird Cage, probably 18th century. Copy after François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Black chalk with stumping (in drapery) and wet work (hair and eyes) and red and white chalk, with blue chalk and traces of yellow chalk; sheet: 35.9 x 28.9 cm (14 1/8 x 11 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2017.218

title:				Seated Woman Holding a Bird Cage
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creation date:			probably 18th century
creation date earliest:		1700
creation date latest:		1799
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	Black chalk with stumping (in drapery) and wet work (hair and eyes) and red and white chalk, with blue chalk and traces of yellow chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: Ananoff

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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: Sheet: 35.9 x 28.9 cm (14 1/8 x 11 3/8 in.)
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CITATIONS

	Ananoff, Alexandre. L'Oeuvre dessiné de François Boucher (1703-1770): catalogue raisonné. Paris: F. de Nobele, 1966.
	page number: 	68, entry # 183, fig. 34
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	Ananoff, Alexandre. L'Oeuvre dessiné de François Boucher (1703-1770): catalogue raisonné. Paris: F. de Nobele, 1966.
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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.218/2017.218_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.218/2017.218_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.218/2017.218_full.tif