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François Boucher

A Warrior, ca. 1750

Description

Maker

  • Attributed to François Boucher, 1703-1770, French

Title

A Warrior

Year

ca. 1750

Medium

black and white chalk on tan laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • crayon,
  • white heightening

Supports

  • Brown paper

Dimensions

39.5 x 26.5 cm (15 5/8 x 10 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in pen and ink in LL corner: "f boucher"

Stamped with the mark of the mountmaker Jean-Baptiste Glomy (Lugt 1119)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Museum Appropriation Fund

Object Number

38.153

Projects & Publications

Publications

Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Changing Poses

November 12, 2010 - June 6, 2011

In this drawing François Boucher’s model is partially clothed and holds props, presumably a bundle of armor and weapons given the helmet and axe by his feet. The artist explored this figural motif in numerous drawings, prints, tapestry designs, and paintings of the mythological subject of Vulcan’s Forge. The rendering of the body demonstrates Boucher’s interest in close study of human musculature and gesture following his appointment as a professor at the Royal Academy in 1737.
Although this sheet may look at first glance like a spontaneous sketch, its composition and level of control suggest that it was in fact carefully prepared, perhaps as an example drawing to be copied by students, or possibly for exhibition and sale as a finished work.

Old Master Drawings

September 2 - October 16, 1983

French Master Drawings

May 1-30, 1954

Exhibition of 18th-Century Drawings and Watercolors

April 16 - December 3, 1948

Master Drawing from the Museum and a Private Collection

June 19 - October 27, 1946

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