A work made of black chalk, with stumping with traces of red chalk, heightened with white chalk and traces of graphite, on tan laid paper.

Study of a Triton

1748/53

François Boucher French, 1703-1770

France

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.

Black chalk, with stumping with traces of red chalk, heightened with white chalk and traces of graphite, on tan laid paper

Prints and Drawings