ID 922513
Lot 55 | FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
Estimate value
€ 10 000 – 15 000
Jeune femme en buste tournée de trois-quart vers la gauche
pierre noire sur papier beige, trace de filigrane
28,5 x 23,5 cm (11 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Elsa Schiaparelli, Paris (1890-1973), puis par descendance au propriétaire actuel.
Post lot text
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER, HEAD OF A WOMAN, BLACK CHALK, TRACES OF WATERMARK
According to Alastair Laing, this delicate head study in black chalk dates from the 1750s or 1760s and was used to prepare one of the numerous figures in Boucher’s landscapes and other pastoral scenes, such as a shepherdess or a peasant woman. In the painting The bird call, dated around 1765 and kept at the Musée du Louvre, the head in profile of the young woman seated in the foreground is very similar to the present drawing (inv. 2727; see A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, II, no. 607, ill.).
We are grateful to Alastair Laing for confirming the attribution on the basis of a digital photograph.
| Artist: | François Boucher (1703 - 1779) |
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| Applied technique: | Chalk |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic, Stone |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Drawings |
| Artist: | François Boucher (1703 - 1779) |
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| Applied technique: | Chalk |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic, Stone |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Drawings |
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