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Head of a Young Woman
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About this work
This work was catalogued as "style of Chardin" when it entered the museum's collection, and was considered a minor rococo revival work of the 1800s. In 2011, the museum asked Alastair Laing, the leading scholar of the artist Boucher, to study it. He confirmed that the painting is a rare survival from the artist's early career—one of only two known oil studies of this type by the artist.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineHead of a Young Woman, early 1730s. François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Oil on canvas; framed: 47 x 40 x 6 cm (18 1/2 x 15 3/4 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 32.4 x 25.6 cm (12 3/4 x 10 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2012.95
