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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 | 89 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | STUDY OF A SEATED YOUNG FEMALE NUDE EXTENDING HER HANDS TO HER RIGHT FOOT |
Works on Paper
30.5 x 22.5 cm (12.01 x 8.86 in)
black and white chalk, with graphite and touches of blue chalk on buff paper
signed lower left, in black chalk: f. Boucher
Marie-Guillaume-Thérèse de Villenave (1762-1846), Paris,
his sale, Paris, Société de L'Alliance des Arts (L.61), 1 December ff. 1842, lot 604;
Private Collection, Paris;
with Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York, 1987 (François Boucher: His Circle and Influence, 1987, no. 26, reproduced p. 48 (B&W) and color pl. III);
with Simon Dickinson, Ltd, London,
where acquired by Bernadette and William M.B. Berger, Denver, Colorado, in 1996
Aspen, Colorado, Old Master Paintings and Drawings from Colorado Collections, 1998, (catalogue by Timothy J. Standring), pp. 2 and 148, not numbered (detail reproduced in black and white on the cover);
New York, The Frick Collection, and Fort Worth, The Kimbell Art Museum, The Drawings of François Boucher, 2003-4, (catalogue by Alastair Laing), p. 108, no. 34, reproduced pp. 10 and 109
L. Soullié & Ch. Masson, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint et dessiné de François Boucher, Paris 1906, no. 2233;
A. Ananoff (in collaboration with Wildenstein Institute), François Boucher, Paris 1976, vol. II, pp. 36 & 37, under no. 338, no. 338/3, reproduced fig 978
Red, black and white chalk, with graphite and touches of blue chalk on buff paper;
signed lower left, in black chalk: f. Boucher
305 by 225 mm; 12 by 8 7/8 in
