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School of FRANÇOIS BOUCHER

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School of FRANÇOIS BOUCHER

Joseph presenting his Father and Brothers to Pharaoh

oil on canvas
25½ x 31 1/8in. (64.8 x 76.5cm.)
Provenance
The Duchess de Berry (according to an old ink inscription on the stretcher)
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, Dec. 15 and 16, 1983, lot 212, as 'Circle of Jean Restout, The Countinence of Scipio'

Lot Essay

An old inventory number '155' is on the reverse of the relining canvas

The original is in the Kress Collection, at the North Carolina Museum of Art. An early work by Boucher, it was thought for many years to be by Restout