LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

30.51 in. (77.50 cm.) (height) by 25.00 in. (63.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated on the pedestal of the urn at center left: F. Boucher/1760

Literature:

C. Wright, A Catalogue of the Old Master Paintings in the collection of Mr and Mrs J.V. Feather at Bridley Manor, Surrey, London 1974, pp. 8, 49, cat. no. 11, reproduced;; J. Seznec and J. Adhémar, Diderot Salons, Oxford 1975, Vol. I, pp. 83, 112, reproduced fig. 42;; A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Paris 1976, Vol. II, pp. 203-204, cat. no. 534, reproduced p. 205, fig. 1485;; D. Sutton, in François Boucher, A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of The New York Botanical Garden, exhibition catalogue, New York 1980, p. 30;; G. Brunel, Boucher, New York 1986, p. 268;; A. Laing, in François Boucher 1703-1770, exhibition catalogue, New York 1986, p. 33.

Provenance:

Christian IV, Herzog von Pfalz-Zweibrücken, "Duc des Deux-Ponts" (1722-1775); His deceased sale (“Catalogue de Tableaux Originaux des Grands Mâitres des Trois Ecoles, qui ornoient un des Palais de feu son Altesse Monseigneur Christient, Duc des Deux Ponts”), Paris, Pierre Remy, Hôtel d’Aligre, 6 April 1778, lot 74 (sold with its pendant, Jupiter and Callisto [misidentified as "Diane & Endimion"], under the same lot number); Claude Billard de Belisard, amongst the items confiscated from his house at no. 394 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 26 pluviôse, an 3 (26 January 1795); Antoine-Gabriel-Aimé Jourdan; His sale, Paris, Paillet, 4 April 1803, lot 3; Comte de Morny; His anonymous sale, Paris, Bonnefons de Lavialle, 16 December 1841, lot 72 ("Deux bacchantes endormies dans un bocage, et couchées sur demolles draperies, surprises par des satyres"); Smidt van Gelder, Amsterdam; By whom anonymously sold ("The Property of a Gentleman"), London, Christie’s, 7 July 1972, lot 21, for £35,000 hammer price ($55,930); There purchased by the present owners.