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François Boucher

Aurora Heralding the Arrival of the Morning Sun, c. 1765

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Medium

brown and black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk on buff laid paper

Dimensions

overall (octagonal): 46 x 40.2 cm (18 1/8 x 15 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dian Woodner

Accession Number

2006.168.1

Artists / Makers

François Boucher (artist) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Provenance

(De Bayser S.A., Paris); purchased 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Galerie de Bayser

Exhibition History

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 67.

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 130-131, 253, no. 56 (color).

2023: Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

1906: Michel, André, Louis Soullié, and Charles Masson. François Boucher. Catalogue raisonné de L'Oeuvre peint et dessiné. Paris, [1906]: no. 451.

2007: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "François Boucher, Aurora Heralding the Arrival of the Morning Sun," National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 36 (Spring 2007): 21-22, color repro.

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