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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 25, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | Old Master Drawings | 85 | $****** - ****** | STUDY OF A YOUNG CHINESE WOMAN SEATED AT A TABLE |
Works on Paper
35.5 x 22 cm (13.98 x 8.66 in)
black and white chalk and brown wash on light brown paper, within pen and brown ink framing lines
signed, lower center, in black chalk: f Boucher.
Possibly sale of the collections of MM. Bellanger and Nan, Paris, 18 March ff. 1776: one of the "Quatre Femmes Turques & Chinoises, par le meme [Boucher]" in lot 20 (bought by Buldet for 4 Livres);
Private Collection, England;
sale, London, Christie's, 1 July 1997, lot 135,
where acquired by Bernadette and William M.B. Berger, Denver, Colorado
Aspen, Colorado, Old Master Paintings and Drawings from Colorado Collections, 1998, not numbered;
New York, The Frick Collection; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada, Watteau and His World: French Drawings from 1700 to 1750, 1999-2000, no. 53;
New York, The Frick Collection, Fort Worth Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, The Drawings of François Boucher, 2003-2004, (catalogue by Alastair Laing), p. 128, no. 43, p. 129 reproduced
Red, black and white chalk and brown wash on light brown paper, within pen and brown ink framing lines;
signed, lower center, in black chalk: f Boucher.
355 by 220 mm; 14 by 8 5/8 in.
