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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
A seminude woman seated among reeds
red and black chalk, heightened with white, stumping, on light brown paper
15 1/8 x 12 1/8 in. (38.6 x 32.1 cm)
Provenance
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), London (L. 2445).
Johan Christian Nieuwenhuys (1799-1883), London (according to André Michel .
John Postle Heseltine (1883-1929), London (L. 1507).
Mary Benjamin Rogers (1879-1955), New York.
with E. Gimpel & Wildenstein, New York.
with Kennedy Galleries, New York.
Millicent Rogers (1902-1953), New York.
Literature
A. Michel, François Boucher Paris, 1886, no. 491.
J.P. Heseltine, Drawings by François Boucher Jean Honoré Fragonard and Antoine Watteau in the Collection of J.P.H., London, 1900, no. 18.
J.P. Heseltine, Dessins de L’ecole française du dix-huitième siècle provenant de la collection H…, Paris, 1913, no. 6, ill.
A. Ananoff, L'Œuvre dessiné de François Boucher (1703-1770). Catalogue raisonné, I, Paris, 1966, no. 711, ill.
A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, François Boucher I, Paris, 1976, no. 279/2, fig. 824.
François Boucher, 1703-1770, exhib. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, and Paris, Grand Palais, 1986-87, p. 221, under no. 50, drawings 1 (entry by A. Laing).
T. Burollet, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Peintures et Dessins, Paris, 1980, p. 50, under no. 11.
T. Burollet, Musée Cognacq-Jay, Les Collections. Les Peintures, Paris, 2004, p. 57, under no. 13.
Exhibited
London, National Loan Exhibition, A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the National Loan Exhibition, 1909-1910, no. 73.
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Catalogue de dessins de l’école française du dix-huitième siècle provenant de la collection Heseltine, 1913, no. 6.
Washington, National Gallery of Art and elsewhere, François Boucher in North American Collections. 100 Drawings, 1973-74, no. 47, ill. (catalogue by R.S. Slatkin).