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François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)
Lot 136

François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)

Head of a girl looking down to the left wearing a scarf

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GBP 27,600

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François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)
Head of a girl looking down to the left wearing a scarf
with inscription 'f. Boucher'
black, white and blue chalk on light brown paper
8½ x 5 7/8 in. (210 x 150 mm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, 26 January 2000, lot 87.

Note du spécialiste

Drawn in preparation for the head of the young fortune-teller in Boucher's painted tapestry design La diseuse de bonne aventure, made in 1767 and now at Versailles (A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, François Boucher, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, II, no. 640, fig. 1681). The tapestry, together with its pendant La Pêche, were woven by the Manufacture Royale des Gobelins in the same year. The attribution to Boucher was confirmed to the previous owner by Alastair Laing.