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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)

Lot 43
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Lot 43 | FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
Estimate value
$ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
Sleeping Diana
signed '.f. Boucher' (lower right)
oil on canvas, the corners made up to a rectangle
35 3/8 x 63 ¾ in. (90 x 162.2 cm)




Provenance

(Probably) commissioned by Pierre Grimod du Fort (1692-1748), comte d'Orsay, for the Chamillard Hotel, rue du Coq-Héron, Paris and thence by descent to his son,
Pierre Gaspard Marie Grimod (1748-1809), comte d'Orsay, for his hôtel particulier, rue de Varenne, Paris, as 'Diane endormie au retour de la chasse'.
Monsieur Coemet, Paris, 1845, his deceased sale; Deodor and de Bellavoine, Paris, 17-19 March 1845, lot 35.
Noël Nathan Bardac (1849-1915), Paris, circa 1910, bequeathed to his brother,
Sigismond Bardac (1856-1919), his sale; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 10 May 1920, lot 15, as ‘Le Sommeil de Diane’, with erroneous dimensions of 78 x 160cm., for 80,200 francs.
Desfossés collection, his anonymous sale; [Le Tout appartenant à Monsieur X], Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4 June 1921, lot 4, as ‘Le Sommeil de Diane’, with erroneous dimensions of 46 x 33 cm., for 50,000 francs.
with Jonas, circa 1932.
with Robert Lebel, Paris, where acquired in 1960 by,
Maurice Lehmann, and thence by descent to the present owners.



Literature

C. Saint-Laurent, Dictionnaire encyclopédique (according to M.L. Soullié, C. Masson, 1906, op. cit.).
M.L. Soullié, C. Masson, 'Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné de François Boucher', François Boucher, A. Michel ed., Paris, 1906, p. 10, no. 129.
R. Bouyer, 'Collection de feu M. Sigismond Bardac (2),' La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité, no. 8, 30 April 1920, p. 66.
Le Bulletin de la Vie Artistique, no. 11, 1 May 1920, p. 308, illustrated.
Le Bulletin de la Vie Artistique, no. 13, 1 June 1920, p. 367.
A. Damécourt, Le Cousin Pons. Revue d'art, no. 69, 1 June 1920, p. 552.
'Collection Sigismond Bardac,' La Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité, no. 11, 15 June 1920, p. 96.
A. Damécourt, Le Cousin Pons. Revue d'art, no. 80, 1 July 1921, p. 639.
A. Ananoff, François Boucher, I, Geneva, 1976, p. 327-328, no. 214, illustrated, erroneously published as exhibited in Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Ausstellung von Werken Französischer Kunst des XVIII. Jahrhunderts, 26 January- 6 March 1910, no. 318.
A. Ananoff, L'opera completa di Boucher, Milan, 1980, p. 102, no. 219, illustrated, with erroneous dimensions of 78 x 160 cm. .
F. Magny, Le Faubourg Saint-Germain. La rue de Varenne, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1981, p. 68 and 70.
H. Gerson, Ausbreitung und Nachwirkung der holländischen Malerei des 17. Jahrhunderts, Amsterdam, 1983, p. 109, note 7.
Artist:François Boucher (1703 - 1779)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Art style:Old Masters
Genre:Nude art, Mythological painting
Place of origin:Western Europe, France
Auction house category:Paintings
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