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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)

Lot 72
04.02.2025 14:00UTC -05:00
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$ 17 640
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1361034
Lot 72 | FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 15 000
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
A man, leaning on his arms, looking up to the right
black and white chalk, on light brown paper, corners cut
7 5/8 x 9 ¼ in. (19.4 x 23.5 cm)




Provenance

Charles Gasc (1822-after 1869), Paris and Spain (L. 542).
with Wildenstein & Co., New York.
Howard Page Cross (1910-1975), New York; by descent to his heirs; Sotheby’s, 5 July 1976, lot 81.
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

A. Ananoff, L’Œuvre dessiné de François Boucher, Paris, 1966, no. 904, fig. 155.
A. Ananoff, with D. Wildenstein, François Boucher, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, II, p. 1753, under no. 423, ‘Dessins’, no. 7, fig. 1210.
J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection. Catalogue of Pictures, III, French Before 1815, London, 1989, p. 76.



Exhibited

Washington, National Gallery of Art, and Chicago, Art Institute, François Boucher in North American Collections. One Hundred Drawings, 1973, no. 70, ill. (catalogue by Regina Shoolman Slatkin).
New York, Stair Sainty Matthiesen, François Boucher. His Circle and Influence, 1987, no. 30, ill. (entry by Regina Shoolman Slatkin).
Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, From Boucher to Vuillard. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Marjorie Bronfman, 2000 (without catalogue).
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