François Boucher

Giancarlo Baroni (1926-2007),

his estate sale, New York, Sotheby's, 29 January 2013, lot 127,

where acquired by the present owner

Prior to the 2013 sale, the late Alastair Laing confirmed the attribution to Boucher, having seen the drawing in the original, and informed us that he believed this to be an unfinished study. The subject is one which Boucher treated in both drawings and engravings; for similar drawings, see A. Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessiné de Boucher, Paris 1966, figs. 30 and 31