Girl with a Spindle
Théodore Chevalier de Vallory, French, active 1760 - 1790
after François Boucher, French, 1703 - 1770
about 1775
Etching on laid paper
Sheet: 9 1/16 × 6 15/16 in. (23 × 17.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
PR.962.114
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: f. Boucher inv.; lower right: Le Ch. de V. Scul; inscribed, in graphite, lower center: grave par la Marquese de Pompadour; lower right, collection mark of Friedrich August II (Lugt 971)
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Friedrich August II (1797-1854), King of Saxony, Dresden; purchased from the Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore, 1962.
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