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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 12, 2013 | Baron Ribeyre & Associes | Paris | DESSINS ANCIENS ET MODERNES | 172 | $****** - ****** | The meeting of Jacob and Laban |
Works on Paper
41 x 56 cm (16.14 x 22.05 in)
Sanguine
Annotated “Butcher” on the back Doubled drawing
François BOUCHER (Paris 1703 - 1770)
The meeting of Jacob and Laban Sanguine 41 x 56 cm Annotated “Butcher” on the back Doubled drawing, restored tears and holes, stains and folds Our drawing is a preparatory study for an early painting now lost dated from the years 1726-28 and known by an engraving in the same direction as our drawing (see A. Ananoff, “François Boucher”, ed. Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris-Lausanne, 1976, n°35). Our hypothesis is that the design must have been counter-tested and then reinforced with certain accents. The lost counter-proof could be reused to create the engraving. Stylistically the drawing is very close to the few early drawings of Boucher that we know. We find the same way of treating faces in “The Birth of Cyrus” (see E. Brugerolles, “François Boucher et l"art rocaille”, exhibition catalog, ENSBA, Paris, 2003, n°15, p.112 , repr.) and the same rendering of the bodies and hands in the character on the right of “Atreus offering as a feast to Thyestes the bodies of his own children (see F. Joulie, “Sketches, pastels and drawings by François Boucher in the collections private”, exhibition catalog, ed. Somogy, Paris, 2004, n°13, repr.) and in “Hyppolyte precipitated out of his chariot” (see A. Laing “The drawings of François Boucher”, exhibition catalog , ed. American Federation of Arts, 2003, n°2, p.42, repr.). Based on a photograph, Mr. Laing does not believe that this drawing is by Boucher.
