The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn
The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER | RECTO: STUDY OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN (ALCIDAS) DOFFING HIS HAT (A STUDY FOR MOLIÈRE’S LE MARIAGE FORCÉ), VERSO: STUDY OF A MAN (TARTUFFE) WITH ARMS OUTSTRETCHED AND SEPARATE STUDIES OF HIS HEAD, AND HANDS HOLDING GLOVES (FOR MOLIÈRE’S TARTUFFE)
Auction Closed
October 14, 09:49 PM GMT
Estimate
14,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER
Paris 1703 - 1770
RECTO: STUDY OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN (ALCIDAS) DOFFING HIS HAT (A STUDY FOR MOLIÈRE’S LE MARIAGE FORCÉ)
VERSO: STUDY OF A MAN (TARTUFFE) WITH ARMS OUTSTRETCHED AND SEPARATE STUDIES OF HIS HEAD, AND HANDS HOLDING GLOVES (FOR MOLIÈRE’S TARTUFFE)
Red chalk (recto) and black chalk (verso);
bears old attribution in pencil, lower left: f. Boucher.
11¾ by 7⅛ in.; 296 by 188 mm.
Probably Feral sale, Paris, 26 May 1879, (as "Un homme debout, le tricorne a la main";
Sale, Toulouse, Chassaing et Rivet, 18 February 1986;
With Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York, François Boucher, his Circle and Influence, 1987, no. 10