# Study of a Triton

- By: François Boucher (French, 1703-1770)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Helen Regenstein Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/113710)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/14034324-d772-46f3-e736-3adea64e4beb/full/843,/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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