File:Jupiter, in the Guise of Diana, and Callisto by François Boucher.jpg

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François Boucher: Jupiter, in the Guise of Diana, and Callisto  wikidata:Q19912200 reasonator:Q19912200
Artist
François Boucher  (1703–1770)  wikidata:Q180932 q:ru:Франсуа Буше
 
François Boucher
Description French painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, illustrator, etcher and drawer
Date of birth/death 29 September 1703 Edit this at Wikidata 30 May 1770 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
Work period from 1720 until 1770
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1720-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1770-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Paris (1720–1770), Northern Netherlands (1766)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q180932
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Jupiter, in the Guise of Diana, and Callisto
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Depicted people
Date 1763 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 64.8 cm (25.5 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 54.9 cm (21.6 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+64.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+54.9U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Gallery 539
Accession number
Object history
Provenance

- Monsieur Bergeret de Grancourt (in 1765)
- Calonne Angelot (until 1789; his anonymous sale, Lebrun, Paris, May 11, 1789, no. 101, sold with its pendant: "Deux sujets agréables . . . L'un représentant Jupiter sous la figure de Danae pour tromper Calysto. L'autre les Amours de Bacchus et d'Ariane . . .", for 405 livres)
- Monsieur Marin (until 1790; his estate sale, Lebrun, jeune, & Saubert, Paris, March 22, 1790, no. 335, as "Jupiter sous la figure de Diane . . . ," sold with its pendant for 414 livres to Geoffrey)
- Pierre Claude Prousteau de Montlouis (until d. 1851; his estate sale, Bonnefons de Lavialle et al., Hôtel des Ventes, Paris, May 5–6, 1851, no. 11, "Diane et Calisto; Vénus et Adonis . . . de forme ovale et dans leurs bordures du temps," for Fr 3,250)
- probably Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, Paris (until d. 1870)
- his natural son and heir, Sir Richard Wallace, Paris (probably from 1870, but by at least 1883–d. 1890)
- his widow, Amélie Julie Charlotte, Lady Wallace, Paris (1890–d. 1897)
- their heir, Sir John Arthur Murray Scott, Paris (1897–1912; inv., 1912/13, bequeathed to Lady Sackville)
- Victoria, Lady Sackville (1912/13–1913/14; sold to Seligmann)
- [Jacques Seligmann, Paris, 1913/14; sold for Fr 350,000 to Knoedler]
- [Knoedler, New York, 1914–17; sold for $150,000 to Plant]
- Mr. and Mrs. Morton F. Plant, New York (1917–his d. 1918)
- Mrs. Morton F. Plant, later Mrs. William Hayward, still later Mrs. John E. Rovensky, New York (1918–d. 1956; her estate sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, January 16, 1957, no. 457, as "Jupiter and Calisto")
- Mr. and Mrs. Jack Linsky, New York (1957–his d. 1980)
- his widow, Mrs. Jack Linsky, New York (1980–82)

Exhibition history
Exhibition history

- Paris. Salon. 1765, no. 8 (as "Jupiter transformé en Diane pour surprendre Calisto," lent by M. Bergeret de Grancourt).
- Paris. Galerie Georges Petit. "L'art au XVIIIe siècle," December 15, 1883–January 1884, no. 6 (as "Diane et Vénus," lent by Sir Richard Wallace).
- Detroit Institute of Arts. "French Paintings of the Eighteenth Century," December 2–20, 1926, no. 8 (as "Jupiter and Callisto," lent by Mrs. William Hayward).
- New York. M. Knoedler & Co. "24 Masterpieces," November 4–23, 1946, no. 17 (as "Jupiter and Callisto," lent by Mrs. William Hayward).
- Washington. National Gallery of Art. "François Boucher in North American Collections: 100 Drawings," December 23, 1973–March 17, 1974 (in unnumbered supplement, as "Jupiter and Callisto," lent anonymously).

Credit line The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
References metmuseum.org
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