François Boucher
Pastorale beside a fountain
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
François Boucher
(Paris 1703 - 1770)
Pastorale beside a fountain
Black chalk;
signed in pen and brown ink, lower left: f Boucher f. and inscribed verso: voila la grandeurs / Duflos
236 by 303 mm; 9¼ by 12 in.
Jean-Denis Lempereur (1701-1779), Paris (L.1740),
his sale, Paris, 24 May 1773, possibly lot 541;
Léon Decloux (1840-1929),
his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 14-15 February 1898, lot 15, 1.650 fr. (unsold ?);
his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 29-30 November 1920, lot 31, to Lasquin,
probably George, Henri or Marius Bottelier-Lasquin;
Mr and Mrs Leigh B. Block, New York,
their sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 20 May 1981, lot 303, bt. Artemis,
Peter Cecil Wilson (1913-1984), Château de Clavary, Auribeau-sur-Siagne, France,
by family descent
A. Nichel, François Boucher, Paris 1906, p. 91, no. 1614;
A. Ananoff, L’Oeuvre dessiné de François Boucher, vol. I, Paris 1966, p. 79, no. 228, fig. 43;
A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Paris 1976, vol. 1, p. 276, no. 159/4, fig. 515;
P. Jean-Richard, L’oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris 1978, p. 240, under no. 931
Engraved:
by Claude Duflos (1700-1786) in reverse for his Les Amours Pastorales, 1742, and then later by Martin Engelbrecht (1684-1756), reversed again, and with German text
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