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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 4, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | Old Master & British Works on Paper | 80 | $****** - ****** | A YOUNG WOMAN, SEEN IN PROFILE, WALKING IN A PARK, TRADITIONALLY IDENTIFIED AS A PORTRAIT OF MADAME DE POMPADOUR |
Works on Paper
52.3 x 39.8 cm (20.59 x 15.67 in)
Black chalk with stumping and red chalk, heightened with white chalk, with touches of pastel
signed and dated in chalk, lower left: f. Boucher / 1752
Casimir Perrin, marquis de Cypierre (1784-1844),
his posthumous sale, Paris, 10 March 1845, lot 165 (as François Boucher);
Arthur Georges Veil-Picard, Paris (1854-1944),
Seized from the above at the Banque de France (Vault 63), Paris by the
Devisenschutzkommando (DSK) on 29 October 1940;
Transferred from the Louvre to Neuschwanstein, Bavaria and to the Jeu de Paume, Paris;
Repatriated to France on 13 November March 1945 and subsequently restituted to the Veil-Picard family on 16 April 1946;
by descent to Maria-Theresia Veil-Picard, Mme. Louis Chaubah,
sale, Paris, Christie's, 1 April 2011, lot 87 (as François Boucher et Atelier);
with Jean-Luc Baroni Ltd, London
Munich, Residenz, Le Siècle du Rococo, Art et civilisation du XVIIIème siècle, 1958, no, 255 (as François Boucher, Portrait de Madame de Pompadour);
London, Royal Academy of Arts, France in the Eighteenth Century, 1968, no. 89 (with incorrect dimensions, as François Boucher, Portrait de Madame de Pompadour)
A. Michel, François Boucher, Paris 1906, p. 127, cat. no. 2284;
P. de Nolhac, Boucher premier peintre du roi, Paris, 1907, p. 58 (as François Boucher, Portrait de Madame de Pompadour);
A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, François Boucher, Paris, 1976, vol. II, p. 18, under no. 321/2 (as a reproduction or copy after François Boucher);
P. Bjurström, Drawings in Swedish Public Collections, French Drawings, Eighteenth Century, Stockholm, 1982, under no. 865, note 2 (as the original of all the various versions);
H. Bauereisen and M. Stuffman, Französische Zeichnungen im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, exhib. cat., Frankfurt, 1986-1987, under no. 87
Black chalk with stumping and red chalk, heightened with white chalk, with touches of pastel;
signed and dated in chalk, lower left: f. Boucher / 1752
523 by 398 mm
