Study sheet with four soldiers' heads, after the Column of Trajan (design for a plate in ''Recueil de différents caractères des testes dessinées d'apres la Colonne Trajane'', etched by J.B. Hutin, published by Gabriel Huquier), François Boucher, after anonymous, 1760 - 1770

Title(s)

Study sheet with four soldiers' heads, after the Column of Trajan (design for a plate in ''Recueil de différents caractères des testes dessinées d'apres la Colonne Trajane'', etched by J.B. Hutin, published by Gabriel Huquier)

Object type

• drawing

Object number

RP-T-1957-255

Inscriptions / marks

• annotation, recto, lower right, pen and brown ink: ‘f. Boucher. del.’
• collector's mark, verso, lower centre: Lugt 2228

Artist

• draughtsman: François Boucher (signed by artist)
• after sculpture by: anonymous

Dating

1760 - 1770

Material

• paper
• chalk

Technique

counterproof

Measurements

height 357 mm × width 258 mm

What

• head (human)
• the soldier; the soldier's life
• helmet

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• Aanwinsten