LOT DETAILS

Materials:

black and red chalk heightened with white, on light brown paper

Size Notes:

36.4 x 29.3 cm

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, Grafton Galleries, National Loan Exhibition, 1909-1910, no. 84, ill. Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Catalogue de Dessins de l'cole franaise du dix-huitime sicle provenant de la collection Heseltine exposs par M. Guiraud, May-June 1913, no. 12, ill.New York, Gimpel and Wildenstein, An Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters at the Galleries of E. Gimpel & Wildenstein, 1914, no. 10.

Literature:

[J.P. Heseltine], Drawings by Boucher, Fragonard and Watteau, London, 1900, no. 9, ill.A. Michel, Franois Boucher, Paris, 1906, II, no. 2315.A. Ananoff, Franois Boucher, Paris, 1966, no. 464, ill. (incorrectly described as on blue paper).A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, Franois Boucher, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, II, no. 377???2, ill.P. Jean-Richard, Luvre grav de Franois Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, 1978, under no. 1425.A. Laing, The Drawings of Franois Boucher, exhib. cat., New York, The Frick Collection, and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 2003-2004, , p.23, fig. 3.

Provenance:

John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929), London (L. 1507). Anonymous sale; Sothebys, New York, 13 January 1989, lot 18. Anonymous sale; Christies, New York, 24 January 2008, lot 82.