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Winged Putti with Flowers

ca. 1750
Not on view
This sheet is one of several studies related to Apollo Revealing His Divinity to Issé (1750; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours), a large mythological painting in which swirls of frolicking putti encircle the main figural group. Many such drawings, and quite possibly the present sheet, would have been made not as preliminary studies, but after the painting was completed, to satisy the market demand for drawings by Boucher's hand. Here, he uses black chalk, stumped in places to create a soft gray, and white chalk highlights to deftly model the dimpled flesh of the cupids and their baskets of flowers.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Winged Putti with Flowers
  • Artist: François Boucher (French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris)
  • Date: ca. 1750
  • Medium: Black chalk, brush and gray wash, and white chalk
  • Dimensions: 8 5/16 x 9 1/4 in. (21.1 x 23.5 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Charles K. Lock, 1960
  • Object Number: 60.175.1
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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