François Boucher

Hubert Robert (1733–1808), Paris;

His posthumous sale, Paris, 5–12 April 1809, lot 34 (with companion): ‘Deux paysages en forme ovale, avec Chaumieres et fabriques. Dans l'um, un jeune garçon qui pêche à la Ligne; dans l'autre, des Villageois qui conduisent un Bateau’, for 25 francs;

Horsin Déon, Paris;

His sale, Paris, Escribe, 26–27 March 1868, lot 3 (with pendant as lot 2), for 1260 francs;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1 June 1949, lot 34 (with pendant), for 3m francs to Baron Cassel;

Baron and Baroness Cassel van Doorn, their sale Paris, Galere Charpentier, 9 March 1954, lot 24 (with pendant lot 23) for 3.5m francs;

Private collection, Paris

A. Michel, François Boucher (catalogue by L. Souillé and C. Masson), Paris 1906, no. 1717 (as ‘Le Batelier’);

A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, François Boucher, Paris 1976, vol. II, p. 261, cat. no. 628, reproduced (as a pendant to the previous lot);

A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, L'opera completa di Boucher, Milan 1980, p. 138, no. 664, reproduced.