Selected by Guest Curator Alastair Laing, Adviser on Pictures and Sculpture to the National Trust, London, The Drawings of François Boucher celebrated the tercentenary of the artist’s birth, bringing together some ninety drawings that highlight his extraordinary technique and style, as well as the wide variety of his subject matter, including figural studies and nudes; mythological and biblical scenes; portraits; landscapes, animal studies; intimate, and interior decorative schemes. This first ever comprehensive international study of Boucher’s drawings was accompanied by a fully illustrated exhibition catalogue featuring an essay and entries by Laing, who assembled new research on Boucher’s drawings, and a foreword by Pierre Rosenberg, former Director of the Musée du Louvre.

Exhibition Itinerary: Frick Collection (October–December 2003) and the Kimbell Art Museum (January–April 2004) .