Live Auction 2675Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolors Including an Important Canadian Collection and a Distinguished Private Collection
Claude Boucher (d. 1756)
Lot 80

Claude Boucher (d. 1756)

Four views of the châteaux of Rambouillet, Anet and Sceaux inset in a pair of frames with tinted and gilded plaster bas-reliefs of trophies symbolizing music and painting

Closed31 January 2013

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Claude Boucher (d. 1756)
Four views of the châteaux of Rambouillet, Anet and Sceaux inset in a pair of frames with tinted and gilded plaster bas-reliefs of trophies symbolizing music and painting
with inscriptions on old labels on the back of the frame 'peint par Boucher 1740' and 'Massaut/graveur en bois de Liege de Mgr Le Dauphin rue des Poulies ancien hotel Conty près le Louvre.'
bodycolor
2 x 2 7/8 in. (5 x 7.2 cm.)

Given by Louise-Henriette de Bourbon, duchesse d'Orléans to Charles-Louis Dupin de Francueil (according to a label on the back of the frame: 'Donné à Mr. Dupin de franceuil par J.B.R. Mad. la Duchesse d'Orléans née princesse de Conty qui avait beaucoup de bontés pour lui. elle mourut en 1759').
Elizabeth Parke Firestone; Christie's, New York, 22-3 March 1991, lot 616.

Specialist note

Little is known of Claude Boucher, 'Peintre du Roy en mignature, aux Gobelins', and engraver who died on 4 June 1756.
It is fitting that the three castles represented, Rambouillet shown twice, Anet and Sceaux, were all possessions of the Bourbon family, as the first owner of these miniatures was Louise-Henriette de Bourbon (1726-1759), Duchesse d'Orléans. She allegedly presented them to Louis-Claude Dupin de Francueil (1715-1786), a fermier-général, famous for his liaisons, most notably with Madame d'Epinay and Mademoiselle de Verrières.