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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 23, 2010 | Christie's | Paris | Tableaux et Dessins Anciens et du XIXe Siècle, Trésors de la Collection Veil-Picard | 109 | $****** - ****** | Vénus jouant avec deux colombes |
Works on Paper
28.8 x 44 cm (11.34 x 17.32 in)
pierre noire, sanguine, pastel, heightened with white on gray blue paper
with the inscriptions 'V.te 2 Dec.1889 -M. B. ... G. Bouillon no. 15'; on back of drawing, signature 'de l'Amateur Varanchon dont la vente eut lieu en 1877 .... M Fenaille' (back mounting)
M. Varanchan
probablement sa vente, Paris, 29 décembre 1777, partie du lot 76 (d'après une inscription au dos di cadre). Probablement Gaspar de Sireul
sa vente, Paris, 3 décembre 1781, lot 117: 'Un précieux dessin colorié..il représente une femme nue couchée sur le dos, dans une attitute voluptueuse' (vendu pour 119,19 livres). Roger de Portalis
sa vente, hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 mars 1887, lot 43. M. Bérend
sa vente, Paris, 2 décembre 1889, lot 15. Maurice Fenaille
puis par descendance.
Exposition François Boucher, Paris, Hôtel de J. Charpentier, 1932, no. 110. Art Français au XVIIIème siècle, Copenhague, 1935, no. 266.
A. Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessiné de François Boucher (1703-1770). Catalogue raisonné, I, Paris, 1966, no. 759. A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Lausanne, 1976, II., p. 122, no. 430/3, fig. 1229. M. Morgan Grasselli, Eighteenth-Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, cat. expo., Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1982, sous no. 6. J. Ingamells, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Pictures, Londres, 1989, III. p. 52, sous no. P438.
