Watermark: Crest containing a crown and the letter V [?]
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left, partially erased: Boucher
Red chalk on thin off-white laid paper
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
34.121
Watermark: Crest containing a crown and the letter V [?]
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left, partially erased: Boucher
Charles Albert de Burlet (Berlin, Germany) (as by Francois Boucher [q.v.])
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 328, no. A79. Sterne, M. The Passionate Eye: The Life of William R. Valentiner. Detroit, 1980, p. 219.
manner of François Lemoyne, Design for Ceiling Decoration, 18th century, red chalk on thin off-white laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.121.