Page 45 from François Boucher’s Second Livre de Figures d’Academies: a seated male figure holding a staff on the right page, with a faint facing page. Page 48 is not shown.

François Boucher

Page 45 and Page 48, from Second Livre de Figures d'Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie Royale

published 1745

Dating
Exact year
Held at
Art Institute of Chicago
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Recto plate: 28.1 × 18.7 cm (11 1/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Verso plate: 18.5 × 27.7 cm (7 5/16 × 10 15/16 in.); Sheet: 30.2 × 22.8 cm (11 15/16 × 9 in.)
Collection no.
2013.498
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

François Boucher. Page 45 and Page 48, from Second Livre de Figures d'Academies Gravées en Partie par les Professeurs de l’Académie Royale, published 1745. Inventory 2013.498. François Boucher; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/148633. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. View scope: The current native photograph shows the opening with the visibly numbered page 45 on the right and faint offset or show-through marks on the facing page. The catalogue records pages 45 and 48 with separate recto/verso measurements. This photograph does not establish a visible page 48; the complete supplied opening is retained.

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago

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