The Birth of Venus

Details

Jacques Charlier (active in Paris, 1720-1790)
The Birth of Venus
watercolor and bodycolor, oval
13 ½ x 10 ½ in. (34.2 x 26.6 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Paris, 21-22 June 1920, lot 132 (as Amphitrite).
with Galerie Georges Petit, Paris.
with Galerie Pardo, Paris, 1981.

Exhibited

New York, Schab Gallery, Pastel and Gouache Drawings of the Eighteenth Century from French Collections, 17 October-15 November 1969.

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Lot Essay

A friend and collaborator of François Boucher, Charlier is best known for his refined miniatures of the master's paintings. A record of an important lost work, this Birth of Venus reproduces a canvas completed by Boucher in 1764 for M. Jacqmin, the Royal jeweler, and recorded today by an engraving by Jean-Charles Lavasseur (A. Ananoff, François Boucher, II, Paris, 1966, no. 577).

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