Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries
Property from a Private Collection
François Boucher
Figures on the March
Auction Closed
July 5, 10:16 AM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection
François Boucher
Paris 1703 - 1770
Figures on the March
Black and white chalk on light brown paper.
Signed or inscribed in pen and brown ink lower right: f. Boucher
306 by 413 mm
Jean-Baptiste Glomy, his mount (L.1119);
Possibly Hubert Robert (1733-1808),
his posthumous sale, Paris, 5 April ff. 1809, probably part of lot 230, 'Six autres Etude et Marches d'animaux, style de Benedette';
Paris, Galerie Charles et André Bailly, Dessins et Tableaux: Maître anciens et modernes, 1988, pp. 12-13, reproduced;
Private collection, France;
sale, London, Christie's, 2 July 1991, lot 329,
where purchased by the present owner
Munich, Bernheimer Fine Old Masters, The Pfeiffer Collection of Old Master Drawings, 2001, p. 44, p. 45 reproduced (as A Mother and Child with Countryfolk);
New York, The Frick Collection and Forth Worth, The Kimbell Museum of Art, The Drawings of François Boucher, 2003-4, pp. 146-7, 238 and 248, no. 52, reproduced (catalogue and entry by Alastair Laing)