Lot Essay
We are grateful to Alastair Laing for suggesting the attribution to Deshays.
A young Man embracing a Nymph
Details
Jean-Baptiste Deshays* (1729-1765)
A young Man embracing a Nymph
with inscription 'Boucher ft'
black and white chalk on blue paper
11 x 11½ in. (280 x 292 mm.)
A young Man embracing a Nymph
with inscription 'Boucher ft'
black and white chalk on blue paper
11 x 11½ in. (280 x 292 mm.)
Literature
A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Paris, 1976, no. 575/5, fig. 1554.
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy of Art, France in the Eighteenth Century, 1968, no. 102, as François Boucher.