Drawn to Life – Works on Paper from a Distinguished Private Collection
François Boucher
Young boy leaning against a barrel and holding a basket
Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 GBP
Lot Details
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Drawn to Life – Works on Paper from a Distinguished Private Collection
François Boucher
(Paris 1703 - 1770)
Young boy leaning against a barrel and holding a basket
Black and white chalk on grey paper within brown ink framing lines;
signed and dated, lower left: F. Boucher 1765
366 by 214 mm
On the mount of the Parisian mountmaker Jean-Baptiste Glomy (1711-1786) (L.1085);
Baroness Eugène de Rothschild (1885–1946),
from whose collection sold, London, Sotheby's, 27 April 1977, lot 65;
purchased at that sale by Sir Karl Theodore Parker (1895-1992), Oxford;
sale, London, Sotheby's, 22 April 1998, lot 128 (as Follower of François Boucher);
with Day and Faber, London;
Dr. Joseph Goldyne, San Francisco;
with Steven Platzman, Addison Associates, San Francisco;
sale, New York, Sotheby's, 25 January 2012, lot 22,
where acquired by the present owner.
Boucher's highly finished drawings of children, usually in a pastoral setting, were extremely popular with contemporary collectors, including Mme. de Pompadour. Some served as models for Sèvres porcelain figures. At the time of the 2012 sale, the late Alastair Laing confirmed the attribution to Boucher, on the basis of a photograph.
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