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Arion Rescued from Shipwreck by a Dolphin

François Boucher
1703-1770

Arion Rescued from Shipwreck by a Dolphin

ca. 1747-1748
7 7/8 x 11 5/8 inches (200 x 295 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, with white, over black chalk on blue paper; some pentimenti, notably in Arion's head and in the prow of the sinking ship.
1991.45

Purchased on the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
This drawing is connected to Boucher's painting of the same subject commissioned by the king in 1748 for the château de la Muette, which is now in the Princeton Art Museum, New Jersey.
Associated names
Sireuil, M. de, former owner.
Boulle, L., former owner.
Bibliography
Alexandre Ananoff, with the collaboration of Daniel Wildenstein, "François Boucher", 2 vols., Lausanne and Paris, 1976, II, p. 27, fig. 953 (as collection M. de Sireul)
Denison, Cara D. French Master Drawings in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1993, no. 53, repr.
Denison, Cara D., with Stephanie Wiles and Ruth S. Kraemer. Fantasy and Reality : Drawings from the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Collection. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995, no. 5, repr. in color.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department