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François Boucher

Paris 1703-1770 Paris

Countess Charlotta Sparre, aged twenty-one

drawn in 1740-1; red, black and white chalk on half of a sheet of buff paper folded in two

343 x 265 mm.

Provenance

acquired from the artist by Count Carl Gustaf Tessin, Paris, April 1741; Tessinska Palace, Stockholm, by 1742; Hessensteinska Palace, Stockholm; Åkerö Manor, Bettna, Södermanland, by 1755; Carl Gustaf Tessin's estate, sale, 14th – 16th February, 1771; acquired at the above by Count Fredrik Sparre, Åkerö Manor, Bettna, Södermanland; by descent in the same family until December 2004

Literature

Fredrik U. Wrangel, Extracts from Carl Axel Hugo Hamilton's diary for the year 1744, Personhistorisk tidskrift, Stockholm, 1901, p. 57; Roger de Robelin, Extracts from Carl Gustaf Tessin's Åkerö diaries, 1756-1769, manuscript, Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm; François Boucher (1703–1770), exhibition catalogue, edited by Alastair Laing, New York, Metropolitan Museum, 17th February – 4th May 1986, essay by J. Patrice Marandel, Boucher and Europe, p. 75 (“To the above [referring to a list of works by Boucher in Tessin’s inventory] the portrait aux trois crayons of the Countess Fersen “smaller than nature, with red dress, black hood, and a coffee cup in hand” is to be added”)