Follower of François Boucher

Possibly Count of Narbonne (according to the Munich 1939 catalogue);

Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Chateaux de Rohoncz, Lugano, by 1930 and until at least 1952;

Georg Schäfer (1896–1975), Schweinfurt;

By whose Executors sold ('From the Collection of George Schaefer, Schweinfurt'), London, Christie's, 7 July 1978, lot 156 (as studio of Boucher).

Munich, Neue Pinakothek, Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz, 1930, no. 35;

Lugano, Villa Favorita, Collection Fondation Château de Rohoncz, 1952, no. 35.

R. Heinemann-Fleischmann (ed.), Katalog der Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz, exh. cat., Munich 1930, p. 11, no. 35, reproduced pl. 127;

R. Heinemann-Fleischmann, in De la propriété de la Fondation collection Château de Rohoncz, M.J. Friedländer (ed.), exh. cat., 1952, p. 17, no. 35;

A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Paris 1976, vol. II, p. 8, under no. 312 (as a copy 3 after a lost original).

This composition relates to a vertical canvas on the same theme, by Boucher, in the Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.¹ This original was one of four overdoors from a suite of five pastoral scenes.

¹ Accession no. 75.2.3; oil on canvas, 117.2 x 91.8 cm.; https://www.famsf.org/artworks/companions-of-diana.