ID 1172904
Lot 68 | FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
Estimate value
€ 8 000 – 12 000
Femme en buste, tournée de trois quart vers la droite
avec inscriptions ‘f. Boucher’ (en bas à gauche)
pierre noire, craie blanche, estompe, sur papier brun
32 x 24,4 cm (12 5⁄8 x 9 5⁄8 in.)
Provenance
Marque du monteur ‘ARD’ non identifiée (L. 172).
Further details
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER, HEAD OF A WOMAN, HALF-LENGTH, BLACK AND WHITE CHALK, STUMPING, ON BROWN PAPER
This sheet is a study for the Allegory of Painting, a painting produced by Boucher as a pendant to the Allegory of Music in the National Gallery of Art in Washington (inv. 1946.71; see A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Lausanne, II, Paris, 1976, nos. 580-581). The painting was executed towards the end of the artist’s life, in 1765, when he was appointed Premier peintre du Roi and elected director of the Académie (Philip Conisbee, French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century, Washington, 2009, pp. 25-32).
We would like to thank Alastair Laing and François Joulie for confirming the attribution to Boucher on the basis of a photograph of the work.
| Artist: | François Boucher (1703 - 1779) |
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| Applied technique: | Chalk |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic, Stone |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | François Boucher (1703 - 1779) |
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| Applied technique: | Chalk |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic, Stone |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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