Study for Alceste

Study for Alceste

Design for the illustration of "Le Misanthrope'' from the 1734 edition of Molière's works (vol. III, p. 341)

RP-T-1953-201

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• annotation, recto, lower right, pen and brown ink: ‘Robien’
• annotation, recto, lower centre, pencil: ‘Le Misantrope’
• signature, recto, lower left, black chalk: ‘f. boucher’

draftsman (artist): François Boucher

1713 - 1734

tegendruk van tekening in rood krijt

height 298 mm x width 233 mm

Tegenafdruk van ontwerp voor de prent door L. Cars.

Public domain

Inv.; collection Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse (1753-1830), Darmstadt, 1812;{Coll. cat. Cordellier 2007, p. 526, no. V.25.} acquired by the state of Hesse and transferred to the Groβherzogliche Museum, Darmstadt, 1830;{Coll. Cat. Cordellier 2007, p. 20.} sold by the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, after 1933;{Coll. cat. Cordellier 2007, p. 526, no. V.25; formerly known as Groβherzogliches Museum.}…; purchased from the estate of Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

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