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A woman and boy crossing a stream beneath a dovecote
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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
A woman and boy crossing a stream beneath a dovecote
signed and dated '·f· Boucher / ·1748·' (lower left, on the stone ledge)
oil on canvas
26 1⁄8 x 31 5⁄8 in. (66.4 x 80.3 cm.)
A woman and boy crossing a stream beneath a dovecote
signed and dated '·f· Boucher / ·1748·' (lower left, on the stone ledge)
oil on canvas
26 1⁄8 x 31 5⁄8 in. (66.4 x 80.3 cm.)
Provenance
Painted for the actress Marie Justine Benoîte Favart, née Duronceray (1727-1772), Paris.
Jean-Claude Gaspard de Sireul (1713-1781), Paris; his deceased sale, Boileau, Paris, 3 December 1781, lot 23, for 300 livres to Vanel.
Anonymous sale; J.A. Paillet, Paris, 9 December 1783, lot 4.
Louis Gabriel (1722-1785), Marquis de Véri Raionard; his estate sale, Boileau and Paillet, Paris, 12 December 1785, lot 11, for 232 livres to Galland.
Louis Jean François Collet (1722-1787), Paris; his estate sale, J.B.P. Le Brun, Paris, 14 May 1787, lot 297, for 108 livres to Bellot.
Eugène Kraemer (1852-1912), Paris; his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 28 April 1913, lot 3, for 16,500 francs to Féral.
François Coty (1874-1934), Château du Puy d’Artigny, Montbazon, and Pavillon Du Barry, Louveciennes; his estate sale, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 30 November 1936, lot 19, to M. Bonnemaison.
with Wildenstein & Co. Ltd., London, circa 1967, where acquired in January 1974 by,
Gerald Humphry Legge (1924-1997), 9th Earl of Dartmouth, Great Britain, and by descent until 2002.
Jean-Claude Gaspard de Sireul (1713-1781), Paris; his deceased sale, Boileau, Paris, 3 December 1781, lot 23, for 300 livres to Vanel.
Anonymous sale; J.A. Paillet, Paris, 9 December 1783, lot 4.
Louis Gabriel (1722-1785), Marquis de Véri Raionard; his estate sale, Boileau and Paillet, Paris, 12 December 1785, lot 11, for 232 livres to Galland.
Louis Jean François Collet (1722-1787), Paris; his estate sale, J.B.P. Le Brun, Paris, 14 May 1787, lot 297, for 108 livres to Bellot.
Eugène Kraemer (1852-1912), Paris; his estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 28 April 1913, lot 3, for 16,500 francs to Féral.
François Coty (1874-1934), Château du Puy d’Artigny, Montbazon, and Pavillon Du Barry, Louveciennes; his estate sale, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris, 30 November 1936, lot 19, to M. Bonnemaison.
with Wildenstein & Co. Ltd., London, circa 1967, where acquired in January 1974 by,
Gerald Humphry Legge (1924-1997), 9th Earl of Dartmouth, Great Britain, and by descent until 2002.
Literature
A. Michel, François Boucher, Paris, [1906], p. 101, no. 1781.
P. de Nolhac, François Boucher, premier peintre du roi, 1703-1770, Paris, 1907, p. 160.
A. Ananoff, François Boucher, II, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, pp. 11 and opposite 66, no. 317, fig. 909.
A. Ananoff, L’Opera completa di Boucher, Milan, 1980, p. 112, no. 328, plate XXX.
M. Hyde, Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and his critics, Los Angeles, 2006, pp. 49-50 and 74, note 29.
P. de Nolhac, François Boucher, premier peintre du roi, 1703-1770, Paris, 1907, p. 160.
A. Ananoff, François Boucher, II, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, pp. 11 and opposite 66, no. 317, fig. 909.
A. Ananoff, L’Opera completa di Boucher, Milan, 1980, p. 112, no. 328, plate XXX.
M. Hyde, Making Up the Rococo: François Boucher and his critics, Los Angeles, 2006, pp. 49-50 and 74, note 29.
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