Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

François Boucher

Half-length of a seated Young Woman reading ‘Abelard et Héloïse’

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July 6, 10:38 AM GMT

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25,000 - 35,000 GBP

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François Boucher

Paris 1703 - 1770

Half-length of a seated Young Woman reading ‘Abelard et Héloïse’

Red, black, blue and white chalk and stumping

207 by 155 mm

Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild;
Mr. Casimir Ignace Stralem,
by inheritance to his wife, Mrs. Casimir Stralem

New York, Galleries of Duveen Brothers, French Drawings of the Eighteenth Century: A Loan Collection arranged by Mr. Richard Owen, 1934, no. 12