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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Winged Cherub Seen from the Back with Upraised, Clasped Hands

François Boucher
1703-1770

Winged Cherub Seen from the Back with Upraised, Clasped Hands

12 3/4 x 10 inches (324 x 254 mm)
Colored chalks, mostly black and red, with white chalk, with some light and dark blue, on pale blue-gray paper, altered to brown.
1980.14

Gift of Stephen Spector.

Notes
This drawing is a study for "Venus Disarming Cupid", a painting that Boucher executed for Madame de Pompadour in 1751, now in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Resnick.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: Countermark: Letter "K".
Associated names
Spector, Stephen, 1946- former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 179.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department