FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)

Lot 66
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ID 991565
Lot 66 | FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
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£ 15 000 – 20 000
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)

Portrait of a young woman, bust-length, traditionally identified as Justine Favart

graphite, black, red, white and blue chalk on light brown paper, unidentified watermark

17.5 x 14 cm (6 7/8 x 5 1/2 in.)





Provenance

Unidentified mounter’s mark (L. 3536).

Georges Pannier (1853-1944), Paris.

with Nicolaas Beets (1878-1963), Amsterdam (according to an inscription on the verso of the frame).

Lydia Pavlovna Koudoyaroff (1904-1980), Paris.

Private collection, Paris ('Mme X', according to Connaissance des Arts, 1963).



Literature

P. de Nolhac and G. Pannier, François Boucher, premier peintre du roi 1703-1770. Catalogue des œuvres peintes de François Boucher, Paris, 1907, pp. 170-171, ill. (as Madame Favart).

'Des chefs-d'œuvre pour décor quotidien', Connaissance des Arts, 31 January 1963, p. 53, no. 5, ill. (as Madame Favart).

N. Jeffares, Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800, online edition [accessed May 2023], no. J.173.188, ill.



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