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François Boucher

Study of a Triton

1748/53
Black chalk, with stumping with traces of red chalk, heightened with white chalk and traces of graphite, on tan laid paper
22.1 × 27 cm (8.7 × 10.6 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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.

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