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Fountain with Two Tritons Blowing Conch Shells, c. 1736. Black chalk with stumping, and red chalk, heightened with white chalk on beige laid paper.
Black chalk with stumping, and red chalk, heightened with white chalk on beige laid paper · Sheet: 37.7 x 22.2 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Fountain with Two Tritons Blowing Conch Shells
- Artist
- François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
- Date
- c. 1736
- Medium
- Black chalk with stumping, and red chalk, heightened with white chalk on beige laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 37.7 x 22.2 cm (14 13/16 x 8 3/4 in.); Secondary Support: 39.6 x 24.2 cm (15 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1703–1770
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.