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Léda

Etching
c. 1740 (Published)
Artist/Maker
François Boucher (Designer)
Claude-Augustin Duflos (Printmaker)
Place of origin
Paris (Printed and published)

Etching.

Object details

Categories
Ornament Prints
Prints
Object type
Etching
TitleLéda (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Etching
Watercolour
Paper (Fiber Product)
Etching
Brief description
François Boucher (after), 'Léda', Leda and the swan, from a series of 5 plates, designs for leaves of folding screens/decorative panels.
Physical description
Etching.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 49.5cm
  • Width: 25.1cm
Bibliographic references
  • Guilmard, D., Les Maîtres Ornemanistes, Paris, 1880-1881, p. 168, no. 43.
  • (Berlin II) Berlin Staatliche Museen, Katalog der Ornamentstich-Sammlung der Staatlichen Kunstbibliothek Berlin, Berlin and Leipzig, 1936-39, 436.
  • Undescribed, but includes another plate, 'Rocaille', from the same series. (IFF) Bibliothèque Nationale, Inventaire du Fonds Français, Paris, 1930 –, Tome 8, p. 59.
  • Jean-Richard, P, L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1978, 874.
  • Snodin, Michael (ed.), assisted by Elspeth Moncrieff, Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth’s England (exh. cat.: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 16 May – 30 September 1984), 23.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
13685:1

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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