LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

40.35 in. (102.50 cm.) (height) by 35.24 in. (89.50 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

signed and dated lower left: f. Boucher / 1754

Exhibited:

Tokyo, Odakyu Grand Gallery; Umeda-Osaka Daimaru Museum; Hokkaido, Hokkaido-Hakodate museum of Art; Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art, Three masters of French Rococo: Boucher, Fragonard, Lancret, 1990, no. 20;; Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, Eye for the Sensual, 25 September 2010 - 2 January 2011, no. 8.

Provenance:

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764), possibly in the King's bedroom in the Château de Bellevue, and in the postmortem inventory of her possessions with its pendant listed as in the vestibule on the ground floor of the Hôtel d'Evreux, also known as the Hôtel de Pompadour, the present-day Elysée Palace;; Her brother, Abel-François Poisson, Monsieur de Marigny and Marquis de Menars (1727-1781);; His deceased sale, Paris, 18 March 1782, lot 22 (with its pendant) for 300 livres, where according to an annotated catalogue it was acquired by M. Desmaisons for M. de Menou;; Presumably Jacques-François de Menou, Baron de Boussay (1750-1810), also known as Abdullah Jacques-François after his conversion to Islam; ; Marquis Guy de Blaisel, Paris;; His deceased sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 16-17 March 1870, lot 19, where unsold;; His deceased sale, London, Christie's, 17-18 May 1872, lot 90, where unsold;; His deceased sale sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 9-10 May 1873, lot 109; ; Eugène Secrétan (1836-1899);; His sale, Paris, Galerie Sedelmeyer, 1 July 1889, lot 103;; Mona Travis Strader (1897-1983), later Mona Williams and subsequently Countess Mona Von Bismarck, New York and Paris;; By order of whose Estate sold, Monaco, Sotheby's, 29 November 1986, lot 353;; With Sayn-Wittgenstein Fine Art, New York;; Private collection;; Anonymous sale, Monaco, Sotheby's, 5 December 1991, lot 182;; Purchased just after the sale by the present collectors.