Old Master Drawings

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Lot 126
  • 126

Circle of François Boucher

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 GBP
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Description

  • François Boucher
  • christ crowned with thorns
  • pen and brown ink and brown and grey wash over black chalk

Provenance

Purchased from Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York, in 1980 (as Italian, 18th Century)

 

Catalogue Note

This composition may be loosely based on Titian's painting of the same subject in the Louvre.1  The draughtsmanship suggests a date of circa 1760.


1. See H.A. Wethey, The Paintings of Titian, London 1969, cat. no. 26, fig. 132.