Venus and Cupid

Description

Although this sketch is similar to drawings by Boucher, a talented pupil or another artist striving to emulate Boucher probably made it.

Provenance

on an old mount now removed an apparently lost: FR (not in Lugt) [according to note on departmental catalogue sheet]

Venus and Cupid

François Boucher

second or third quarter 18th century

Accession Number

1942.538

Medium

Black chalk with stumping heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper; framing lines in brown ink

Dimensions

Sheet: 20.8 x 32.6 cm (8 3/16 x 12 13/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Richard Owen