Design for Ceiling Decoration, 18th century

  • François Lemoyne, French, 1700-1800

Red chalk on thin off-white laid paper

  • Sheet: 8 1/16 × 7 15/16 inches (20.5 × 20.2 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

34.121

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

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.