- Museum number
- 1895,0915.955
- Description
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Pastoral composition; two young lovers reclining at centre, surrounded by sheep and cattle, a building and trees behind, her hat and shepherdess crook in the foreground
Black chalk, heightened with white
- Production date
- 1703-1770
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres
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Width: 297 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- This and 1895,0915.954 are studies in reverse for two of the four prints, 'les Amours Pastorales', by Antoine Jean Duclos, see J.-R. Pierrette, 'L'oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild', Paris, 1978, nos. 929-932 (present drawing related to no. 930). A reversed copy of the print by Georg Friedrich Schmidt is illustrated by Ananoff and Wildenstein 1976, I, fig. 783. The subject and composition of the print recall Boucher's painting, 'Sleeping shepherdess', of 1743 in the Louvre (Ananoff and Wildenstein 1976, I, no. 260, fig. 780).
Lit.: A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, 'François Boucher', Lausanne and Paris, 1976, I, no. 260/3, p. 376, fig. 852
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1982 Apr-Jun, Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, 'Boucher', no. 101
1982 Jul-Aug, Kumamoto Museum, 'Boucher', no. 101
1990 Mar-Sep, BM, Fake?, no. 127
1996/7 Sep-Jan, BM, Malcolm Collection, no. 63
2004 Sep-Dec, London, Wallace Collection, 'The Art of Boucher: Landscapes'
2005 Jan-Mar, Co. Durham, Bowes Museum, 'The Art of Boucher: Landscapes'
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.955
