Study of a Triton
François Boucher
1748–1753
- Medium
- Black chalk, with stumping with traces of red chalk, heightened with white chalk and traces of graphite, on tan laid paper
- Dimensions
- 22.1 × 27 cm (8 3/4 × 10 11/16 in.)
- Genre
- chalk
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkchalk sticksgraphiteMythologywhite chalkprints and drawingstumpingdrawing techniquespaper (fiber product)red chalk
About
Boucher's drawings of the human anatomy reveal his thorough academic training. This vigorous drawing is a study for the triton in the painting Sunrise (1753) in the Wallace Collection, London, which was commissioned as a tapestry design in 1748.
