Study of a boy sheltering behind an arm

细节

François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)
Study of a boy sheltering behind an arm
black, red and white chalk, on light brown paper, watermark device and J LE PORC/1742
244 x 246 mm.

来源

Anonymous sale; Paris, 28 March 1955, lot 1.
Anonymous sale; Paris, Arcole, 12 December 1990, lot 50.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1991, lot 171.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 3 April 1995, lot 102 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-148).

注意事项

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拍品专文

Alastair Laing has kindly confirmed the attribution, and notes that this is a development from rather than an initial study for a figure in Boucher's La Pipée aux Oiseaux, signed and dated 1748. That picture, now in the Getty Museum, served as a model for the right-hand section of the fourth tapestry in a cycle of six entitled La Noble Pastorale, woven by the Beauvais factory in 1749, A. Ananoff, François Boucher, II, Paris, 1976, p. 21, fig. 324a).