Live Auction 2511Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings & Watercolors Part II
François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)
Lot 292

François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)

The death of the Virgin, after Samuel van Hoogstraten

Closed26 January 2011

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François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770)
The death of the Virgin, after Samuel van Hoogstraten
signed 'F. Boucher'
pencil, point of the brush and red, brown and grey wash
7 7/8 x 9 3/8 in. (19.8 x 25 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 17 March 2005, lot 368, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

Based on a composition by Samuel van Hoogstraten (Dordrecht 1627-1678) now in the Fondation Custodia, Paris (Rembrandt et son école, exhib. cat., Paris, Fondation Custodia, 1997, under no. 69). During Boucher's lifetime, Hoogstraten's drawing (which was then thought to be by Rembrandt) was in the celebrated Goll van Franckenstein Collection in Amsterdam and therefore the present work must have been executed when Boucher visited Holland in 1766 (see B. Schreiber-Jacoby, 'Boucher et Rembrandt', in Boucher et les peintres du Nord, exhib. cat., Dijon, Musée Magnin, 2004, p. 16. Another drawing of the same composition attributed to Boucher is in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. 1256).