Lot 85
  • 85

François Boucher

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description

  • François Boucher
  • La Bohemienne
  • Black chalk;
    bears inscription, lower right: Boucher
  • 8 1/2 x 6 3/8 inches

Provenance

Madame d'Azaincourt;
Baron Schwiter (L.1768),
his sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 20 April 1883, lot 13 (as 'Les Mendiants'); 
with Schaeffer Galleries, New York,
where acquired by Elizabeth Parke Firestone,
her sale, New York, Christie's, 23 March 1991, lot 607

Literature

A. Michel, François Boucher, Paris 1906, under no. 1330;
P. Jean-Richard, L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris 1978, p. 174, under no. 611

Catalogue Note

Engraved:
Gilles Demarteau, in reverse, crayon manner engraving (cf. P. Jean-Richard, loc. cit., p. 174, no. 611)

The publication of Demarteau's engraving was announced in the Avant-Coureur in April 1762, thus establishing a terminus ante quem for the drawing.