Old Master Drawings

Old Master Drawings

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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER | HERCULES AND OMPHALE

Auction Closed

January 29, 05:09 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

FRANÇOIS BOUCHER

Paris 1703 - 1770

HERCULES AND OMPHALE


Pen and black and gray ink and gray wash;

signed in gray ink, lower left: F. Boucher

bears inscription on the back of the frame: Hercule aux pieds a Omphale /Dessin original de Boucher/Appartient à Charles Rouvin à Paris

127 by 95 mm; 5 by 3¾ in (oval)

Probably Jean-Claude Gaspard de Sireul,

his posthumous sale, Paris, Hotel de Bullion, 3 December 1781, lot 92: Un joli dessein de forme ovale à la blanc, plume, lavé à l'encre de la Chine sur papier, représentant Hercule & Omphale. Le fonds offre un riche palais. Hauteur 5 pouces, largeur 4 pouces,

where purchased by Monsieur Barthélemy Loliée;

Charles Rouvin (according to the inscription on the back of the frame);

sale, Paris, Rossini, 8 December 2015, lot 88 (as Attributed to François Boucher)

We are most grateful to Alastair Laing, who, from an image, has confirmed the attribution to François Boucher and who has kindly informed us that this is, most probably, the drawing described under lot 92 in Monsieur Sireul's posthumous sale (see Provenance). Mr Laing, on stylistic grounds, suggests the drawing was executed relatively early in Boucher's career and that it might have been a design for the lid of a silver box.