The Magnanimity of Scipio

between 1760 and 1769

François Boucher French, 1703-1770

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Title The Magnanimity of Scipio

Artwork Date between 1760 and 1769

Artist François Boucher

Life Dates 1703-1770

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Brown chalk on buff laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 19 9/16 × 11 15/16 inches (49.7 × 30.3 cm) Framed: 28 1/4 × 19 5/8 × 1 1/8 inches (71.8 × 49.8 × 2.9 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Laura H. Murphy Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 59.406

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, upper right: X Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, verso, center right edge: [indecipherable] Inscribed, in pencil, verso, center: 10 [underscored] Inscribed, in pencil, verso, lower left edge: [indecipherable, partially erased]; Inscribed, in pen and blue ink, verso, center: Dessin fragonard | appartenant à Mlle | à Paris | Juillet 1933 | coll p suzor

Marks Watermark: Sun (in lining paper)

Provenance

P. Suzor (Paris, France);
1957, Charles E. Slatkin Gallery (New York, New York, USA);
1959-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

François Boucher: His Circle and Influence. Exh. cat., Stair Sainty Mattheison. New York, 1987, p. 79.

François Boucher 1703-1770, Prints and Drawings. Exh. cat., Charles E. Slatkin Gallery. New York, 1957, no. 22 (pl. xx).

French Drawings and Watercolors from Michigan Collections. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1962, no. 13 (ill.).

The Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Vol. 3, Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York: Hudson Hills, 1992, p. 154 (pl. XXVI); pp. 200-201, no. 92.

Rosenberg, Pierre, trans. Catherine Johnson. French Master Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in North American Collections. Exh. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto and London, 1972, no. 13 (pl. 86).

Slatkin, Regina Shoolman. "Alexandre Ananoff: L'Oeuvre dessiné de Boucher, Catalogue raisonné, Vol. I" Review in Master Drawings 5, 1 (1967): pp. 54-66, p. 62.

Slatkin, Regina Shoolman. François Boucher in North American Collections: One Hundred Drawings. Exh. cat., Nationally Gallery of Art. Washington D.C., 1973, no. 88 (pl. 88.).

Woods, Willis F. The Institute Collects: A Selective Survey of the Addditions to the collection 1959-1964. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit 1964, p. 18 (ill.), p. 6.

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François Boucher, The Magnanimity of Scipio, between 1760 and 1769, brown chalk on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Laura H. Murphy Fund, 59.406.