Elevation d'une maison de 7 toises de face
Classification
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
Accession Number
1921-6-254-77
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
**Elevation d'une maison de toises de face***Juste-François B, French, 1736–1782, ca. 1775* Print; Smithsonian American Art Museum around 1775 by Juste-François B, son of the renowned Rococo François Boucher, this captures an "elevation"—a precise front view—of a house measuring seven toises wide (roughly 45 feet, using the traditional French unit). As an 18th-century architectural rendering, it reflects the elegance of French domestic design during the waning years of the Ancien Régime, blending ornamental detail with functional symmetry. Boucher the younger, trained in his father's ar...