Study of a male Nude wielding a Hammer

Details

FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (1703-1770)
Study of a male Nude wielding a Hammer
red chalk on light brown paper
7 ½ x 7 ¼ in. (19.1 x 18.4 cm.)

Provenance

Gisèle Weinberger (1927-2000), Paris.
Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg, by 1994.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 2 July 1996, lot 242.
Bernadette J. Berger (1940-2015) and William M. B. Berger (1925-1999), Denver, Colorado, The Berger Collection Educational Trust; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 25 January 2017, lot 84.
Acquired at the above sale.

Literature

Possibly A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, L’opera completa di François Boucher, Milan, 1980, p.111, under no. 313.

Exhibited

New York, Thomas Le Claire Kunsthandel at W. M. Brady & Co., Master Drawings 1500-1900, 1994, no. 29.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

This work will be included in the catalogue raisonné of A.Laing and L.-A. Demazure, currently in preparation.

For a note on this drawing, please refer to lot 52.

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