François Boucher (1703-1770)

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François Boucher (1703-1770)

A female Nude playing on a Pipe seen from behind (Euterpe?)

black, red, white and coloured chalk (some retouching), on light brown paper
246 x 360mm.

Provenance

Galerie Cailleux (stamp not in Lugt)

Literature

A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Catalogue des Peintures, Geneva, 1976, under no. 389, fig. 1125
M. Roland Michel, Le Dessin Français au XVIIIe siècle, Fribourg, 1987, p. 190, fig. 227

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Le Dessin Français de Watteau à Prud'hon, 1951, no. 7
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Figures Nues de l'Ecole Française, 1953
Grasse, Musée Fragonard, Femmes, 1962, no. 5
Paris, Galerie Cailleux, François Boucher, 1964, no. 37
London, Matthiesen Gallery, Exhibition of French Master Drawings of the 18th Century, 1964 (?), no. 10

Lot Essay

Connected with the picture Nymphes et Amours, signed and dated 1752, formerly at Hendon Hall, that was sold in these Rooms, 1 June 1956, lot 28 and is now in a New York private collection. Another version of the picture probably from the artist's studio is in the Wallace Collection. A print of a female nude by Demarteau very close in pose to the present drawing was engraved after a drawing then in the collection of M. d'Azaincourt, P. Jean-Richard, L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher, Paris, 1978, no. 651, illustrated

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