print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.3473
- Title
- Object: Afternoon
- Description
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Portrait of Mlle Sallé; three-quarters length standing to left, looking towards the viewer, holding a dove in front of her, in a fashionable gown and cloak with pearl necklace and a hat decorated with a rose over long curly hair; trees behind; after Fenouil; from a set of the four times of day.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1740s-1761
- Dimensions
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Height: 330 millimetres
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Width: 235 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Chaloner Smith describes also 'Noon', and a pencil annotation to the departmental copy records impressions of unfinished states of Morning and Evening. All these other three are after Boucher. For an earlier print by Petit after the same portrait which is the likely source for this mezzotint see 1873,0712.274
Neil Jeffares (email oct 2021): The sitter is indeed the dancer Marie Salle, and the face is derived from La Tour's portrait of her, J.46.2842 in my La Tour catalogue.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.3473
