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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 3, 2021 | Baron Ribeyre & Associes | Paris | LIVRES - ART CLASIQUE & MODERNE | 80 | $****** - ****** | Love teaching a young girl to read |
Works on Paper
34 x 23.5 cm (13.39 x 9.25 in)
Black chalk and white highlights on faded blue paper
Stamp of the ARD editor (L.172).
former Randon de Boisset collection; its sale, Paris, February 27, 1777 ff., lot 343: “Love who teaches a young girl to read, another girl looks at herself in a mirror, a third holds a quiver. This allegorical drawing is in black and white pencils on blue paper: height 13 inches, width 3 [sic] inches” (acquired by Legere for 90 pounds)
Perhaps anonymous sale, Paris, July 8, 1777, part of lot 70: “Love showing young girls how to read” (sold for 6 pounds)
Perhaps posthumous sale of Baroness Jankowitz, granddaughter of the sculptor E-M Falconet, Paris, December 1, 1866, lot 10: “Group of Love and three young girls. Charming black pencil drawing.”
Former Albuquerque collection, its stamp (L.3149)
Exhibited by the Trinity Fine Art gallery at the Newhouse gallery, New York, 1998, no. 31
Our sheet was used to create a Sèvres porcelain model made by Falconet, with several variations. Madame de Pompadour acquired a copy in 1763 and Louis XV acquired two in 1765, one was kept in Bellevue. A plaster model and a bisque version are kept at the city of ceramics, Sèvres (exp. cat. Sèvres, 2001, fig.1 p.182 and cat. no. 107).
Glazed porcelain versions appear from time to time for public sale, one is kept at Memorial Art
Gallery, University of Rochester (Bertha Buswell Bequest, 55.108).
Francois Boucher (1703-1770)
Love teaching a young girl to read
Black chalk and white highlights on faded blue paper.
34 x 23.5 cm
Stamp of the ARD editor (L.172).
