FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770) AND STUDIO
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buy… Read more
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770) AND STUDIO

La Pêcheuse

Details
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770) AND STUDIO
La Pêcheuse
oil on canvas
102½ x 60 in. (260.4 x 152.4 cm.)
Provenance
Watel Dehaynin.
M. and Mme. G..., Paris, 1973.
Literature
A. Ananoff, 'François Boucher et l'Amérique', L'Oeil, June 1976, p. 23.
A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, I, p. 10, item 57; p. 258, no. 131; fig. 468.
E.A. Standen, 'Fêtes Italiennes: Beauvais Tapestries after Boucher in the Metropolitan Museum of Art', Metropolitan Museum Journal, XII, 1977, pp. 116-117, note 22; p. 120, fig. 21.
R.S. Slatkin, 'The Fêtes Italiennes: Their Place in Boucher's Oeuvre', Metropolitan Museum Journal, XII, 1977, p. 137.
A. Ananoff, L'Opera completa di Boucher, Milan, 1980, p. 95, no. 132a, illustrated
E.A. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, II, p. 508, cited under no. 78; p. 528, note 14.
A. Laing ed., François Boucher, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and elsewhere, New York, 1986, pp. 193-4, cited under no. 37.
E. Goodman, ''Les Jeux innocents': French Rococo Birding and Fishing Scenes', Simiolus, XXIII, no. 4, 1995, p. 267, note 53, fig. 28.
Exhibited
New York, Wildenstein, François Boucher, 12 November-19 December 1980, pp. 35-6, no. 7, fig. 7.
Tokyo, Metropolitan Art Museum, and elsewhere, François Boucher (catalogue by D. Sutton), 24 April-22 August 1982, no. 15, pp. 47 and 160-1, illustrated.
Tokyo, Wildenstein, François Boucher, 19 April-31 May 1991, no. 5, pl. 5 and fig. 5.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

See note to preceding lot.

More from THE WILDENSTEIN COLLECTION

View All
View All