The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn
The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn
Auction Closed
October 14, 09:49 PM GMT
Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
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