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拍品專文
This portrait is traditionally identified as the opera singer and dancer Justine Favart. Marie-Justine-Benoîte Favart-Duronceray (1727-1772), best known as Justine Favart, was famous in 18th-Century Paris dance and theatre worlds, where she made her debut under the name of Mademoiselle Chantilly. She was portrayed by some of the greatest artists of the 18th Century, in painting and drawing and engraving including in an oil portrait by François-Hubert Drouais from 1757 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. 17.120.210), in pastel by Jean-Étienne Liotard in 1757 (inv. OR 276; Kunst Museum Winterthur), and a pastel sketch by Maurice Quentin de La Tour from circa 1750 (inv. LT39; Musée Antoine Lécuyer, Saint-Quentin).
The present drawing relates to a series of works depicting Justine Favart executed by Boucher in 1750-1760s, which include portrait drawings of Madame Favart as a gardener and Madame Favart in the role of Ninette (whereabouts unknown; see A. Ananoff, L' Œuvre dessiné de François Boucher, Paris, 1966, p. 63, nos. 166-167). Prints based on these drawings were engraved by Demarteau, Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully and Le Bas (inv. 19282 L.R., 19405 L.R., 18757 L.R. and 6003 L.R; Musée du Louvre, Paris; P. Jean-Richard, L' Œuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, 1978, nos. 747, 835, 1242, 1349, ill.). Given its fine quality and high level of finish, the present drawing could have well been intended as aan independent work, as well as preparatory for a (lost) painting (P. de Nolhac, op. cit., p. 170; Auge-Walferdin sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 12-16 April 1880, lot 107).
The ownership of Georges Pannier, whose collection held four pastels from the Favart family, supports the idea that this portrait is indeed that of Justine Favart (Nolhac, ibid.).
We are grateful to Françoise Joulie and Alastair Laing for confirming the attribution.
The present drawing relates to a series of works depicting Justine Favart executed by Boucher in 1750-1760s, which include portrait drawings of Madame Favart as a gardener and Madame Favart in the role of Ninette (whereabouts unknown; see A. Ananoff, L' Œuvre dessiné de François Boucher, Paris, 1966, p. 63, nos. 166-167). Prints based on these drawings were engraved by Demarteau, Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully and Le Bas (inv. 19282 L.R., 19405 L.R., 18757 L.R. and 6003 L.R; Musée du Louvre, Paris; P. Jean-Richard, L' Œuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, 1978, nos. 747, 835, 1242, 1349, ill.). Given its fine quality and high level of finish, the present drawing could have well been intended as aan independent work, as well as preparatory for a (lost) painting (P. de Nolhac, op. cit., p. 170; Auge-Walferdin sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 12-16 April 1880, lot 107).
The ownership of Georges Pannier, whose collection held four pastels from the Favart family, supports the idea that this portrait is indeed that of Justine Favart (Nolhac, ibid.).
We are grateful to Françoise Joulie and Alastair Laing for confirming the attribution.