Two Putti, 18th century

  • French
  • François Boucher, French, 1703-1770

Black chalk with stumping, with red and white chalk, on tan laid paper

  • Image and sheet: 11 1/8 × 14 3/4 inches (28.3 × 37.5 cm) Mount: 12 3/8 × 16 1/8 inches (31.4 × 41 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Laura H. Murphy Fund

34.120

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Stamp, in brown ink, lower right: R [circled]

Inscribed, on mount, in pencil, lower left, vertically: copy Picasso [mat?]

unidentified collector. August 1934, Anthony White. 1934, R. Langton Douglas (London, England)

1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

"Artists' Handwriting Makes Good Reading at the Detroit Institute." Art Digest 24, 17 (June 1, 1950): p. 9 (ill.). Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 325, no. A75. "Rearrangements of the Museum's Collections." Bulletin of the DIA 14, 4 (November 1934): 28-30, p. 29 (ill.). Sterne, M. The Passionate Eye: The Life of William R. Valentiner. Detroit, 1980, p. 219.

French; after François Boucher, Two Putti, 18th century, black chalk with stumping, with red and white chalk, on tan laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Laura H. Murphy Fund, 34.120.