François Boucher
Moses Receiving the Tablets of the Law
1759
Physical Qualities
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over red chalk heightened with white, Sheet: 400 x 294 mm. (15 3/4 x 11 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Fanny B. Thalheimer Memorial Fund
Object Number
1975.4
Collection of the artist (his estate auction, 18 February 1771, no. 393: "Autre beau dessein, idem; hauteur 15 ponces, largeur 10 ponces 6 lignes. Son Sujet est Moyse qui recoit les tables de la Loi des Mains de Dieu accompagne d'Anges"); Anonymous sale, Paris, 1 April 1776, no. 85; Rigal, 1810; Silvestre, 1811 (estate auction, no. 236: "Moise recevant les tables de la loi"); Vignere (his auction, 22 December 1856, no. 11: "beau dessin a la plume lave de bistre"); Laperlier, 1879; Louis Silver; David Daniels
Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, "François Boucher in North American Collections: 100 Drawings," 23 December 1973 - 17 March 1974; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 4 April - 12 May 1974 (cat. no. 3, ill. p. 5)
BMA, "Baltimore Collects: French and Italian Drawings, 1715-1814," 16 October - 2 December 1984.
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," October 10-December 10, 1989.
BMA, Jacobs wing rotation, July 27 - November 26, 2012.
BMA, "Baltimore Collects: French and Italian Drawings, 1715-1814," 16 October - 2 December 1984.
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Old Master Drawings from the BMA and Gilmor Collections," October 10-December 10, 1989.
BMA, Jacobs wing rotation, July 27 - November 26, 2012.
Goncourts, p. 188
Michel, Andre, "François Boucher," Paris: L'Edition d'Art, n.d., p. 44, no. 808
Ananoff, no. 681
Joulie, Françoise. "Boucher et les peintres du nord." Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2004, p. 117, Ill. 53, in color.
Inscribed: None
Markings: None
