Basil Lewis Dighton

British, died 1930

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Sketched with red and white chalk on tan-colored paper, a nude woman sits looking down to our right in this vertical drawing. The woman’s body is angled to our right, and she has a round face with a small nose, bow-shaped mouth, and slight double chin. A few lines suggest her hair is swept up and back from her forehead. She leans onto her left elbow, to our right and farther from us, which appears to rest on a bank of clouds. She reaches forward with her other hand to hold some drapery. She has soft, rounded arms, tummy, and thighs, and her ankles are crossed. The artist signed the lower left corner, “f. boucher.”
François Boucher, Aurora, c. 1733, red and white chalk on brown laid paper, with later framing line in brown ink, Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, 2000.9.3

Aurora

François Boucher · c. 1733 · red and white chalk on brown laid paper, with later framing line in brown ink ·  Accession ID  2000.9.3

François Boucher, Venus, c. 1754, black chalk with touches of red chalk, heightened with white chalk on gray paper, Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, 2000.9.5

Venus

François Boucher · c. 1754 · black chalk with touches of red chalk, heightened with white chalk on gray paper ·  Accession ID  2000.9.5

Jean-Baptiste Nattier, A Triton Blowing a Conch Shell, 1724, black chalk heightened with white chalk on gray-brown laid paper, Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, 2000.9.19

A Triton Blowing a Conch Shell

Jean-Baptiste Nattier · 1724 · black chalk heightened with white chalk on gray-brown laid paper ·  Accession ID  2000.9.19

François Boucher, Reclining Nymph, c. 1752, black and white chalk on brown laid paper, Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, 2000.9.4

Reclining Nymph

François Boucher · c. 1752 · black and white chalk on brown laid paper ·  Accession ID  2000.9.4

Benjamin Marshall, J.G. Shaddick, the Celebrated Sportsman, 1806, oil on canvas, Paul Mellon Collection, 1999.79.24

J.G. Shaddick, the Celebrated Sportsman

Benjamin Marshall · 1806 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1999.79.24

Bibliography

1930

  • [Obituary]. The Connoisseur 86 (November 1930): 337.