François Boucher (1703-1770)

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Details

François Boucher (1703-1770)

'L'Oiseau mal défendu': a Shepherd and a Shepherdess carousing in a wooded Landscape

signed and dated 'f Boucher 1761'

oval

30¾ x 25¾in. (78 x 65.5cm.)

In a fine Louis XV carved and gilded frame

Provenance

Spitzer Collection, Paris
M. Rey
Coche de La Ferté
with Wildenstein, New York
Stehli Collection; sale, Parke Bernet, New York, 30 Nov. 1950, lot 17 and pl.23 ($13,000)
Mrs. Gaby Salomon; Christie's, 7 July 1972, lot 102 (40,000gns. to Whitfield)

Literature

A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Paris, 1976, II, pp.209-10, no.544, and figs.1500-1
A. Ananoff, L'opera completa di François Boucher, Milan, 1980, no.572, illustrated
J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures, III, French before 1815, London, 1989, p.45

Exhibited

Paris, Salon, 1761, no.9 'Pastorales et paysages, sous le même numéro'

Lot Essay

The pendant, also signed and dated 1761, was separated from the present picture before 1777 and is now in the Wallace Collection (Ananoff, op. cit., 1976, no.543; Ingamells, op. cit., pp.45-7, no.P431).

Ananoff records a drawing after the figure of the shepherdess
in a sale on 16-17 November 1932, lot 29, illustrated

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