drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1859,0806.86
- Description
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Study of three boys at play; two boys acting as a horse and the third riding, on a hillside with a cottage in the distance
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1703-1770
- Dimensions
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Height: 147 millimetres
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Width: 145 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This drawing along with 1859,0806.87 and 88 are studies for figures in Jacques Gabriel Huquier's etching 'Le Cheval Fondu', Jean-Richard 1978, no. 1182 (BM impression 1873,0712.279). The figures in the print are reversed.
Lit.: P. Mantz, ' François Boucher, Lemoyne et Natoire', Paris, 1880, p.p. 64 and 178; P. Jean-Richard, 'L'oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild', Paris, 1978, under no. 1182
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Acquisition notes
- The Bill Book (22 December 1857) records that these 3 drawings of a Bolognese shepherd boy 'were purchased from Boucher by Mr Reveley and an account is given in his work on drawing'.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1859,0806.86