Head of a Young Woman
François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
early 1730s
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
unframed: 32.4 × 25.6 cm · framed: 47 × 40 × 6 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Accession Number
2012.95
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.