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DAY & FABER master drawings

    François Boucher (Paris 1703 - Paris 1770)

    Mothers mourning their children, study for for the "Massacre of the Innocents"

    Description:

    brush and brown wash over black chalk
    157 x 224 mm
    on the mount of Jean-Baptiste Nourri

    Provenance:

    Jean-Baptiste Nourri (1697-1784), posthumous sale, Paris 24 February 1785:
    lot 1065: [Boucher] “Huit compositions et études, dont une premier pensée
    du Massacre des Innocents, à la plume et au bistre”, (Nourri embellished his mounts with pen lines and bands of green as illustrated in article by Lise Bicart-Sée, Master Drawings 45: 2007, no.1, pp. 87-90)
    purchased by Langlois
    Private collection, France
    Private collection, USA

    Mothers mourning their children, study for for the "Massacre of the Innocents"