François Boucher

Please note that the following line in the note should read as follows, and not as stated in the printed catalogue: We are grateful to Alastair Laing for tentatively endorsing the attribution to Boucher on the basis of first-hand inspection, and for his help in the cataloguing of this lot. Please note this painting is displayed in a loan frame from Arnold Wiggins and Sons. Should you wish to purchase it please contact a member of the Old Master Paintings department.

Probably Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford (1800–1870), London and Paris;

Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet (1818–1890), London and Paris, by 1872;

Thence by descent to Julie Amélie Charlotte Castelnau, Lady Wallace (1819–1897), London and Paris;

Bequeathed to Sir John Edward Arthur Murray Scott (1847–1912), London;

His posthumous sale ('Sold by Order of the Court of Chancery'), London, Christie’s, 27 June 1913, lot 115, for £1207–10s. to Wertheimer;

With Ascher Wertheimer (1844–1918), London;

George A. Lockett Esq., London;

Thence by inheritance to his wife, Mrs George A. Lockett, London;

By whom posthumously sold, London, Christie’s, 19 June 1942, lot 53, for £1,680 to M. Repton;

With David Koetser, London and New York;

With Newhouse Galleries, New York, 1953;

Private collection, Switzerland, by 1963; 

Thence by descent.

London, The Bethnal Green Branch of the South Kensington Museum, 1872, no. 454 (lent by Sir Richard Wallace);

Sarasota, Florida, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The Artful Rococo, 1953, no. 2 (lent by Newhouse Galleries, New York).

A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, François Boucher, Lausanne and Paris 1976, vol. I, p. 374, no. 259, reproduced p. 375, fig. 779;

A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, L'opera completa di Boucher, Milan 1980, p. 106, no. 266, reproduced p. 107.