drawing
- Museum number
- 1929,0511.8
- Description
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Study of a young woman standing; whole-length, seen almost in profile to right, raising her right hand to her face and holding her long skirts up with her left hand, part of a fence and clumps of grass behind
Red chalk
- Production date
- 1703-1770
- Dimensions
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Height: 203 millimetres
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Width: 197 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- A similar figure appears in a crayon manner engraving by Gilles Demarteau after a drawing belonging to Madame de la Haye, see P. Jean-Richard, 'L'oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild', Paris, 1978, no. 765. The differences between the BM drawing and the one reproduced in the print include minor details of the figure's costume, such as her being shown barefooted in the engraving , and in the background.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1987/8 Nov-Feb, V&A, 'The Image Multiplied', (no cat.)
1990 April-Aug, BM, Treasures of P&D (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1929
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1929,0511.8
