FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1781)

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£ 277 200
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05.07.2022 12:00UTC +01:00
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ID 793324
Lot 48 | FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1781)
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1781)

A seated female nude

with number ‘4421.’ (on the mount)

with inscription ‘Academie de femme. Cest le plus beau dessein de cette espece que l'on puisse voir. Il est de/ Mr. Boucher nommé avec beaucoup de justice le peintre des graces.’ (on the reverse of the mount)

black and red chalk heightened with white, on light brown paper

36.4 x 29.3 cm (14 1⁄4 x 11 1⁄2 in.)





Provenance

John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929), London (L. 1507).

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 13 January 1989, lot 18.

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 24 January 2008, lot 82.



Literature

[J.P. Heseltine], Drawings by Boucher, Fragonard and Watteau, London, 1900, no. 9, ill.

A. Michel, François Boucher, Paris, 1906, II, no. 2315.

A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Paris, 1966, no. 464, ill. (incorrectly described as on blue paper).

A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, François Boucher, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, II, no. 377⁄2, ill.

P. Jean-Richard, L’œuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, 1978, under no. 1425.

A. Laing, The Drawings of François Boucher, exhib. cat., New York, The Frick Collection, and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 2003-2004, , p.23, fig. 3.



Exhibited

London, Grafton Galleries, National Loan Exhibition, 1909-1910, no. 84, ill.

Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Catalogue de Dessins de l'école française du dix-huitième siècle provenant de la collection Heseltine exposés par M. Guiraud, May-June 1913, no. 12, ill.

New York, Gimpel and Wildenstein, An Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters at the Galleries of E. Gimpel & Wildenstein, 1914, no. 10.



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