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Drawing of 'a Triton'

François Boucher

Art Funded
1941
Dimensions
21 x 27 cm
Vendor
F A Drey
A study for a figure in 'The Rising of the Sun' already in the Wallace Collection.

Designed for Gobelin tapestries. One of 8 gifts to the Ashmolean, Fitzwilliam and Wallace Collection by F A Drey through the Art Fund between 1938 and 1943.

Provenance

Duke of St Albans at Bestwood.

Black chalk

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