Live Auction 2175Old Masters and 19th Century Art
Circle of François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)
Lot 49 THIS LOT IS SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE

Circle of François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)

The sleeping Ceres

Closed4 June 2009

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Circle of François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)
The sleeping Ceres
oil on canvas
15¾ x 12¼ in. (40 x 31.1 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Bukowski, Stockholm, 24-26 November 1999, lot 418A, as 'François Boucher'.

Specialist note

The present composition relates to a lost painting by Boucher from 1731, now known only through an engraving in reverse by François Basan (see A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, I, pp. 201-2).