Lot fleeing with his daughters

Details

François Boucher (1703-1770)
Lot fleeing with his daughters
signed (?) 'fBoucher'
black chalk, pen and grey ink, grey wash
311 x 206 mm.

Provenance

H. Michel-Lévy; Paris, 12-3 May 1919, lot 46.
Anon. sale; Paris, 5 March 1984, lot 1.

Literature

A. Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessiné de François Boucher, Paris, 1966, no. 693.

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Lot Essay

Alastair Laing has kindly confirmed the attribution suggesting a date of around the 1750s, and citing a drawing in the Léon Michel-Lévy sale of Abraham banishing Hagar and Ishmael which might be a pendant of the present sheet, sold in Paris, 17 June 1925, lot 36. A version of the latter subject, with a François Renaud mark, was sold at Christie's South Kensington, 19 April 1997, lot 155.

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