François Boucher (1703-1770)

A female nude raising a cloth, seen from behind

Details

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

Provenance

M. de Sireul; Paris, 3 December 1781, lot 139 (14 livres to Verrier).
Henri Michel-Lévy; Paris, 12-3 May 1919, lot 62.
Léon Michel-Lévy; Paris, 17-8 June 1925, lot 30.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 28 January 1999, lot 133 (as Boucher).

Literature

A. Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessiné de François Boucher, Paris, 1966, no. 448, fig. 448.

Sale room notice

This lot has been withdrawn

Lot Essay

Alastair Laing has kindly confirmed the attribution of this drawing. The drawing is a variant of a drawing formerly in the Goncourt collection, (A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, no. 445, fig. 82), and was probably executed as an independant 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.

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