Girl with a Spindle

Théodore Chevalier de Vallory, French, active 1760 - 1790
after François Boucher, French, 1703 - 1770

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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

Print

Research Area

Print

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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