LOVE LETTER
Creator(s): Unknown (Painter) , François Boucher (After)
On view in: Marjorie Post's Bedroom Hall
About this object
In the center foreground are two young shepherdesses, in 18th century costume, one in a blue dress, the other in white and pink. The girl at the left is tying a blue ribbon around the neck of a dove while the one at the right has a sealed envelope to be tied to the ribbon. At the left are sheep and a dog. At the right background is a pedestal with a lion and trees. At the left an open landscape.
- Object name:
- LOVE LETTER
- Made from:
- Oil on canvas
- Made in:
- France
- Date made:
- after 1750
- Size:
- 66.7 x 57.2 cm (26 1/4 x 22 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 51.6
- Class:
- PAINTING
- Signature marks:
- LABEL Boucher [On back] label Lady Stanley Errington [printed label on rear of painting]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973