Pastries, Talmouses, All Hot
c. 1737
- Medium
- black and red chalks on paper
- Dimensions
- 25.1 × 16.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-1103269
François Boucher made the drawing as a print design for a series depicting Parisian tradespeople, titled the Cris de Paris (Criers of Paris), which consisted of 12 plates. Subjects in the series included this vendor of hot pastries and cheese puffs as well as a variety of other vendors such as a knife grinder, broom seller, chimney sweep, and vegetable seller. Boucher was known primarily for images epitomizing the elegant court life of France—nudes, decorative compositions, and pastorals—rather than so-called “low life” subjects such as street vendors. Boucher’s series struck a chord with the…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2025.140
Registry history
- c. 1737 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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