Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

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Property from the Ehlen Collection

François Boucher

Study of a reclining male nude reclining, with subsidiary studies of his head, arm and hand

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35,000 - 50,000 GBP

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Property from the Ehlen Collection


François Boucher

(Paris 1703 - 1770)

Study of a reclining male nude reclining, with subsidiary studies of his head, arm and hand


Red chalk, heightened with white chalk on light brown paper

350 by 302 mm

With Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg (Cat. VI. Meisterzeichnungen 1500-1900, 1989, no. 35),

from whom purchased by the father of the present owners

The Drawings of François Boucher, exhib. cat., New York, The Frick Collection; Texas, Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 2003-4, pp. 27-28, reproduced fig. 18