François Boucher / Eros and Psyche: Design for a Ceiling / n.d.

François Boucher
Eros and Psyche: Design for a Ceiling
n.d.
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Creator Name: Boucher, François
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: French; 1703-1770
Creator Name-CRT: François Boucher
Title: Eros and Psyche: Design for a Ceiling
Title Type: preferred
Title: Venus and Cupid (Study for a Ceiling)
Title Type: alternate
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1703
Creation End Date: 1766
Creation Date: n.d.
Creation Place: Europe,France
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Classification Term: ink or chalk wash
Classification Term: Drawing
Classification Term: Prints and Drawings
Materials and Techniques: Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with brush and red chalk wash, over traces of black chalk, on oval-shaped cream laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 319 x 248 mm (oval format)
AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number: 1960.557
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Helen Regenstein Collection
Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html
Context: Regenstein catalogue (1985-1986):The dynamic swirl lines combined with the brilliant chiaroscuro effect contained within the oval shape, make this drawing an unsurpassed example of Boucher's spontaneous genius for decoration. It seems that the composition was not used for any actual ceiling. The Abbé Saint-Non effectively copied it in aquatint in 1766.
AMICA ID: AIC_.1960.557
AMICA Library Year: 2001
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000

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