A PAIR OF CHINESE-EXPORT REVERSE PAINTINGS-ON-GLASS

AFTER BOUCHER, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF CHINESE-EXPORT REVERSE PAINTINGS-ON-GLASS
After Boucher, late 18th Century
Each depicting a young couple seated under a tree, within a landscape and surrounded by sheep, one showing her learning to play the flute with a large ruin and fountain in the background, the other one tying a red ribbon round a sheep, with a waterfall and castle in the distance, in a later giltwood frame
20½ in. (52 cm.) high; 16½ in (42 cm.) wide (2)

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The first painting, is after 'La leon agréable', by Franois Boucher, (1703-1770), formerly in the Perinet Collection, Paris and now lost, it was exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1748. It belongs to a group of pastoral paintings by Boucher, with a boy and a girl in the woods surrounded by sheep, playing a flute, eating grapes, etc. another of which was in the Charles Sedelmeyer Collection, Paris, (see H. Macfall, Boucher, London, 1908, no. 128 and also L'opera Completa di Boucher, Milan, 1980, nos. 321, 322).

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