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13-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. (image) 16-3/4 x 10-7/8 in. (sheet)
Mark Descriptionon plate, lower: "Boucher invenit et Sculp"; C.: "a Paris chez Hugnier rue S. Jacques au coin des Mathurins C.P.R."
Accession NumberCarl H. Lieber Memorial Fund
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PalettePurchased by the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1949.
Before becoming the most celebrated court painter of Louis XV, Boucher was a well-regarded etcher. His first major commission while in his early twenties, was to etch 116 plates from the drawings of the recently deceased Antoine Watteau, a project for which Boucher created The Graces at the Tomb of Watteau as the frontispiece for the second volume of the series.
"M. de Julienne, who wished to have the drawings of Watteau engraved, consigned many to Boucher . . . His light and spiritual touch seems to have been made for this work."
-- Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740–1770
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