Description:

circa 1750
inscribed: Francesco Boucher (lower right)
red chalk, watermark encircled fleur-de-lys
255 x 325 mm
 

Provenance:

Hotel Drouot, Paris, 29 October 1980, lot 67
Christie’s, London, 3 April 1984, lot 81
Christie’s, London, 8 April 1986, lot 88
Dr Edward Brett (1929-2019), London

Literature

Alvin L. Clark, Mastery and Elegance, Two centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, 1998 – 1999, p. 230, under no. 61, illustrated fig. 2
Alastair Laing, The Drawings of François Boucher, Frick Collection, New York, 2003, p. 196, under no. 75, p. 241 under note 75
Françoise Joulie, Esquisses, pastels et dessins de François Boucher dans les collections privées, Musée Lambinet, Versailles, 2004, p. 138 under no. 64 and note 5