The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Head of a Young Woman

Head of a Young Woman

early 1730s
(French, 1703–1770)
Framed: 47 x 40 x 6 cm (18 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 32.4 x 25.6 cm (12 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Description

This work was catalogued as "style of Chardin" when it entered the museum's collection, and was considered a minor rococo revival work of the 1800s. In 2011, the museum asked Alastair Laing, the leading scholar of the artist Boucher, to study it. He confirmed that the painting is a rare survival from the artist's early career—one of only two known oil studies of this type by the artist.
  • -2008
    Mrs. Muriel Spiro Butkin (1915-2008), Shaker Heights, OH
    2008-2012
    Estate of Muriel Butkin
    2012-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • {{cite web|title=Head of a Young Woman|url=false|author=François Boucher|year=early 1730s|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.95