Franois Boucher (1703-1770)

A female nude raising a cloth, seen from behind

Details

Franois Boucher (1703-1770)
Boucher, F.
A female nude raising a cloth, seen from behind
black and white chalk on light brown paper
13 x 7 in. (344 x 185 mm.)

Provenance

M. de Sireul; Paris, 3 December 1781, lot 139 (14 Livres to Verrier).
Henri Michel-Levy; Paris, 12-3 May 1919, lot 62
Lon Michel-Levy; Paris, 17-8 June 1925, lot 30.

Literature

A. Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessin de Franois Boucher, Paris, 1966, no. 448, fig. 448.

Lot Essay

Alastair Laing has kindly confirmed the attribution of this drawing to Franois Boucher. The drawing is a variant of a drawing formerly in the Goncourt collection (A. Ananoff, Franois Boucher, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, no. 445, fig. 82) and was probably executed as an independent work of art, to be sold to collectors.
The Goncourt drawing is connected to a picture of The Judgement of Paris dated by Ananoff to 1759, op. cit., 1976, no. 524.