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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 5, 2022 | Christie's | London | Old Master and British Works on Paper: Drawings, Watercolours and Prints 1500-1900 | 48 | $****** - ****** | A seated female nude | |||
Jan 13, 1989 | Sotheby's | New York | Old Master Drawings | 18 | $****** - ****** | A seated female nude |
Works on Paper
36.4 x 29.3 cm (14.33 x 11.54 in)
black and red chalk heightened with white, on light brown paper
with number ‘4421.' (on the mount) with inscription ‘Academie de femme. Cest le plus beau dessein de cette espece que l'on puisse voir. Il est de/ Mr. Boucher nommé avec beaucoup de justice le peintre des graces.' (on the reverse of the mount)
John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929), London (L. 1507).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 13 January 1989, lot 18.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 24 January 2008, lot 82.
London, Grafton Galleries, National Loan Exhibition , 1909-1910, no. 84, ill.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Catalogue de Dessins de l'école française du dix-huitième siècle provenant de la collection Heseltine exposés par M. Guiraud , May-June 1913, no. 12, ill.
New York, Gimpel and Wildenstein, An Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters at the Galleries of E. Gimpel & Wildenstein , 1914, no. 10.
[J.P. Heseltine], Drawings by Boucher, Fragonard and Watteau , London, 1900, no. 9, ill.
A. Michel, François Boucher , Paris, 1906, II, no. 2315.
A. Ananoff, François Boucher , Paris, 1966, no. 464, ill. (incorrectly described as on blue paper).
A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, François Boucher , Lausanne and Paris, 1976, II, no. 377⁄2, ill.
P. Jean-Richard, L 'œuvre gravé de Franç ois Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild , Paris, 1978, under no. 1425.
A. Laing, The Drawings of François Boucher , exhib. cat., New York, The Frick Collection, and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 2003-2004, , p.23, fig. 3.
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1781)
A seated female nude
with number ‘4421.' (on the mount)
with inscription ‘Academie de femme. Cest le plus beau dessein de cette espece que l'on puisse voir. Il est de/ Mr. Boucher nommé avec beaucoup de justice le peintre des graces.' (on the reverse of the mount)
black and red chalk heightened with white, on light brown paper
36.4 x 29.3 cm (14 1⁄4 x 11 1⁄2 in.)
