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Study of Valet with Coffee Pot, c. 1739. Red chalk, with black chalk, and touches of graphite, heightened with white chalk, on buff laid paper.
Red chalk, with black chalk, and touches of graphite, heightened with white chalk, on buff laid paper · 34.6 × 19.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Study of Valet with Coffee Pot
- Artist
- François Boucher French, 1703-1770
- Date
- c. 1739
- Medium
- Red chalk, with black chalk, and touches of graphite, heightened with white chalk, on buff laid paper
- Dimensions
- 34.6 × 19.5 cm (13 5/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
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.