La Toilette des Nymphs (The Toilette of the Nymphs)
Jean-Claude Richard, Abbe de Saint-Non, French, 1727 - 1791
after François Boucher, French, 1703 - 1770
1766
Etching with brown aquatint on Laid paper
Overall: 8 3/4 × 10 1/2 in. (22.2 × 26.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund
PR.993.7
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, lower left, in plate: Boucher del.; lower right: Saint Non Sc. 1766
Course History
ARTH 17.2, FILM 50, When Media Were New, Katie Hornstein, Spring 2014
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 23.
Figure Studies, Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 1993 - January 9, 1994
Remembrance of Things Past: Prints and Photographs from the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-September 3, 2000.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 23.
Louis Guimbaud, Saint-Non et Fragonard, d'apres des documents inedits, Paris, Le Goupy, 1928, no. 37.
Provenance
Paul McCarron, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1993.
Catalogue Raisonne
Guimbaud, no. 37; P. Jean-Richard, L'Oeuvre grave de Francois Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, no. 1578.
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