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Landscape

Artist François Boucher (French, 1703 - 1770)
Date18th century
MediumBlack and white chalks on blue paper
DimensionsOverall: 12 15/16 × 17 3/4 inches (32.86 × 45.09 cm)
Credit LineGift of Milton McGreevy
Object numberF59-64/10
On View
Not on view
Collections
Exhibition History

The Arts of Man: A Selection from Ancient to Modern Times, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, October 6-December 31, 1962.

Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 58, as Landscape.

Escape to Eden: The Pastoral Vision in Eighteenth-Century France, Milwaukee Art Museum, March 19-May 30, 1999, unnumbered, as Landscape.

Provenance

With Sotheby & Co., London, no. 2, by September 25, 1959;

Purchased from Sotheby and Co., September 25, 1959, by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Inc., London, stock number A23176, September 25–October 1, 1959 [1];

Purchased from Colnaghi by Milton W. McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, October 1-November 10, 1959 [2];

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1959.

NOTES:

[1] Colnaghi stock books, COL3/2/6, Waddesdon Manor, Windmill Hill, Aylesbury Vale Parkway, UK.

[2] Colnaghi stock book notes “Nelson Gallery Foundation” as the buyer. Ibid. See also Nelson-Atkins Archives, MSS007 Milton McGreevy Papers, box 1, folder 2.

Published References

“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 34, as Landscape.


Laurie Winters, Escape to Eden: The Pastoral Vision in Eighteenth-Century France, exh. cat. (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1999), unpaginated, as Landscape.



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