French Prints and Drawings of the XVIIIth Century

About the exhibition

The National Gallery of Art presented eighteenth-century French prints and drawings in 1944–1945. The documented selection includes drawings and original prints, retaining the specific medium and identity of each surviving object. Exact surviving examples are François Boucher’s Tête-à-tête (1764; black chalk heightened with white on laid paper) and Hubert François Gravelot’s Self-Portrait (1730/1750; graphite on laid paper). This is a partial checklist reconstructed from the objects’ museum histories; precise opening and closing days remain unknown.

Also recorded as: French Prints and Drawings of the XVIIIth Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.