After François Boucher
After François Boucher

Neptune and Amymone

细节
After François Boucher
Neptune and Amymone
with indistinct inscription 'Frs B...' (?) (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
16¼ x 26¾ in. (41.2 x 68 cm.)

拍品专文

This composition derives either from a lost painting by Boucher, or from the tapestry for which that painting was a cartoon. The tapestry of Neptune and Amymone is the third in a series designed by Boucher representing The Loves of the Gods, of which the Beauvais workshop produced seven versions in circa 1750.

There is a bozzetto for the lost cartoon in the Louvre, and a study for the reclining female figure seen from the back, lower right, is in the Thierry collection, Paris (A. Ananoff, L'Opera Completa di Boucher, Milan, 1980, no. 357).