The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn

The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn

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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER | STUDY OF A SEATED WOMAN WITH SCARF, FOR L'ÉDUCATION DE LA VIERGE

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October 14, 09:49 PM GMT

Estimate

18,000 - 22,000 USD

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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER

Paris 1703 - 1770

STUDY OF A SEATED WOMAN WITH SCARF, FOR L'ÉDUCATION DE LA VIERGE


Sanguine brulée, heightened with white chalk on blue paper

15¾ by 11½in.; 413 by 296 mm.

Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, "Collection d'un Amateur Hollandais", 23 May 1930, lot 7;

Sale, Geneva, Galeries Moos, 27 October 1934, lot 4;

With Galerie de La Scala, Paris;

With Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris, Géricault, no. 24, 1990

A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, François Boucher, Paris 1976, vol. II, p. 231, no. 578/1, fig. 1565, reproduced;

B. Schreiber Jacoby, "Boucher's Late Brown Chalk Composition Drawings", Master Drawings, vol. XXX, no. 3, 1992, p. 278, fig. 23, reproduced and p. 285, no. 18