Design for a Funeral Monument
François Boucher · c. 1767 · black chalk and stumping with touches of graphite, heightened with white, on brown laid paper
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About this picture
Design for a Funeral Monument is a public-domain drawing by François Boucher, dated c. 1767. Black chalk and stumping with touches of graphite, heightened with white, on brown laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Design for a Funeral Monument” (c. 1767) is by Boucher or a print after him. The subject is usually myth or a pastoral, treated as decoration.
About the artist
François Boucher (1703–1770) was a French Rococo painter favored at court. Myth, pastoral scenes, and decorative panels are painted with a light touch in pink and blue.
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