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Study for La Flèche Whose Pockets are Being Searched by Harpagon
Also titled Studie voor La Flèche, wiens zakken worden onderzocht door Harpagon
François Boucher (Paris, 1703–1770)
1713 - 1734
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Classification
- design
- Dimensions
- height 309 mm x width 185 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
About this work
Boucher illustrated a special edition of the complete works of the French playwright Molière. This drawing shows a scene from L’Avare (The miser) in which the old miser Harpagon searches the pockets of his valet, La Flèche, for money. Boucher rendered Harpagon sketchily to try out how he would ultimately place the two figures in the final composition.
