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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 5, 2017 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master & British Works on Paper | 71 | $****** - ****** | STUDY OF A COOKMAID FOR LA BELLE CUISINIÈRE |
Works on Paper
36.3 x 19.6 cm (14.29 x 7.72 in)
Red chalk with touches of white chalk
Sale of the Cabinet de M. *** (Gabriel Huquier the Elder, the second of his sales), 1 July ff. 1771, lot 43 (among the framed drawings),
bought by Lavocat for 6 Livres;
(?) François Guerin (before 1751-after 1791) (L. 1195);
...Le Pelletier Collection, Paris;
sale, New York, Christie's 30 January 1997, lot 150,
where acquired by Bernadette and William M.B. Berger, Denver, Colorado
Aspen, Colorado, Old Master Paintings and Drawings from Colorado Collections, 1998, (catalogue by Timothy J. Standring), p. 69, not numbered;
New York, The Frick Collection; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, Watteau and His World: French Drawings from 1700 to 1750, 1999-2000, no. 49;
New York, The Frick Collection, and Fort Worth, The Kimbell Art Museum, The Drawings of François Boucher, 2003-4, (catalogue by Alastair Laing), p. 68, cat no. 15, reproduced p. 69
L. Soullié & Ch. Masson, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné de François Boucher, Paris 1906, p. 63, under no. 1135;
François Boucher: Premier peintre du Roi, 1703-1770, Paris, Galerie Cailleux, 1964, under no. 2;
A. Ananoff (in collaboration with Wildenstein Institute), François Boucher, Paris 1976, vol. I, p. 208, cat. no. 75/4, fig. 335;
P. Jean-Richard, Inventaire général des gravures: École française. vol. I: L'Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1978, p. 79, under no. 205;
T. Burollet, Musée Cognacq-Jay: Peintures et dessins, Paris 1980, p. 45, under cat. 10;
A. Laing, J. Patrice Marandel, and P. Rosenberg, François Boucher, 1703-1770, exhib.cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts and Paris, Grand Palais, 1986, p. 148, under no. 21
Red chalk with touches of white chalk
363 by 196 mm
