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Study of a Triton
François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
1748/53
- Medium
- Black chalk, with stumping with traces of red chalk, heightened with white chalk and traces of graphite, on tan laid paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 22.1 × 27 cm (8 3/4 × 10 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Boucher's drawings of the human anatomy reveal his thorough academic training. This vigorous drawing is a study for the triton in the painting Sunrise (1753) in the Wallace Collection, London, which was commissioned as a tapestry design in 1748.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
