COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
CMA_.1981.58
AMICA Library Year:
2002
Object Type:
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name:
Boucher, François
Creator Nationality:
European; French
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Dates/Places:
1703 - 1770
Gender:
M
Creator Birth Place:
Paris
Creator Death Place:
Paris
Creator Name-CRT:
François Boucher
Title:
Pastoral Scene with Family at Rest
Title Type:
Alternate
Title:
Femme assise avec son enfant
Title Type:
Foreign
Title:
The Departure of Jacob
Title Type:
Primary
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
1729
Creation Start Date:
1729
Creation End Date:
1729
Creation Date:
1750s
Creation Start Date:
1750
Creation End Date:
1759
Creation Date:
c. 1755
Creation Start Date:
1750
Creation End Date:
1760
Materials and Techniques:
pen and brown and black ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk, red chalk, and red chalk wash, framing lines in black ink
Classification Term:
Drawing
Dimensions:
Sheet: 34.8cm x 23.1cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number:
1981.58
Credit Line:
Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
Inscriptions:
ON THREE SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECES OF PAPER (now removed and in departmental file), inscribed in black ink: T[illegible] / Dessin à la[illegible] / Boucher - [illegible] / chez Paulme [illegible] 19[illegible] / [illegible] ; printed in black ink: THOS [S superscript] AGNEW & SONS LTD [TD superscript] / Nº 44133 / LONDON, / 43 OLD BOND STREET / PICCADILLY, W1X 4BA ; printed in black ink: Place de la Borde, Nº 2, près St [t superscript]-Augustin / ALEXANDRE / JOUANEST / DOREUR / Fabricant de bordures dorées / pour tableaux, estampes, / glaces, gouaches et des- / sins, et se charge de / l'encadrement. / A PARIS.
Provenance:
[possibly sold, Drouot, Paris, 3-5 May 1858, 48, no. 630: "Le Pâtre, sa Famille et son Troupeau au repos, beau dessin à l'encre de Chine lavé au bistre"]. Marius Paulme, 1905 (according to Agnew's; label from an old backing in cma files confirms Paulme provenance); Mme D., Paris (according to Ananoff/Wildenstein 1976).
Context:
Although Boucher painted many pastoral scenes with lovers resting in the country, the inclusion of a mother with children suggests Boucher had a specific story in mind when he made this drawing: the biblical narrative (told in the Book of Genesis) of the Departure of Jacob. Below the canopy of a palm tree, Jacob offers a pear to his nursing wife Rachel. Boucher filled the scene with examples of the wealth Jacob acquired during his years of servitude to Rachel's father, Laban-including a loaded donkey, children, sheep, and cattle.
Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.AM20020723.tif
