A shepherd teaching a shepherdess to play the flute

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After François Boucher
A shepherd teaching a shepherdess to play the flute
oil on canvas
39 x 32 in. (99 x 81.3 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The composition derives, in reverse, from Boucher's eponymous oval painting in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Boucher exhibited his work at the Salons of 1748 and 1750, and the composition was quickly popularised, in particular by an engraving, also in reverse and of rectangular format (and after which the present painting is presumably painted), entitled
L'agréable leçon, by René Gaillard, as well as by a celebrated Sèvres porcelain group of the two figures, known as Le flûteur.

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