François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)

A young shepherdess presenting a flower to a shepherd

Details

François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)
A young shepherdess presenting a flower to a shepherd
black and white chalk with touches of red chalk on grey-blue paper
10 x 12½ in. (253 x 317 mm.)

Provenance

Anitchkoff Palace.
The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg; Boerner, Leipzig, 4 May 1932, lot 9.

Literature

A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, II, no. 611/1, fig. 1631.

Lot Essay

A study for the painted sketch of Les jeunes amoureux, with Newhouse Gallery in 1970, datable to 1765 (A. Ananoff, op. cit., no. 611, fig. 1629). The picture, barely larger than the drawing, differs from it only in details such as in the position of the left hand of the shepherdess or the presence of a tree trunk on the right hand side of the composition. A drawn variant of the subject with the shepherd asleep was formerly in the Ephrussi Collection (A. Ananoff, op. cit., no. 611/2, fig. 1632).

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