ID 1132806
Lot 110 | FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
A seated male nude, looking up
inscribed ‘Boucher’ (lower right)
red chalk, heightened with white, on light brown paper
18 3⁄8 x 12 ½ in. (46.7 x 31.8 cm)
FD: 25 3⁄4 x 20 x 1 inches plexiglass
Provenance
Henri Michel-Levy (1844-1914), Paris; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 12-13 May 1919, lot 55.
Archibald George Blomefield Russell (1879-1955), London (L. 2770a); Sotheby’s, London, 22 May 1928, lot 97.
with Richard Owen, Paris.
with Colnaghi, London (Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, 1949, no. 44).
with Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York (François Boucher. An exhibition of Prints and Drawings, 1957, no. 25, ill.).
Gerald Bronfman (1911-1986) and Marjorie Bronfman, née Schechter (1917-2012), Montreal; by descent to
Corinne Bronfman (1947-2022), Washington DC; by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Alexandre Ananoff, L’Œuvre dessiné de Boucher, Paris, 1966, no. 531.
Exhibited
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, and Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, François Boucher in North American Collections, 1973, no. 25, ill. (catalogue by R. Shoolman Slatkin).
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