Attributed to André Bouys (Hyères 1656-1740 Paris)
Lot 205 PROPERTY FROM THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE EUROPEAN PAINTINGS ACQUISITIONS FUND

Attributed to André Bouys (Hyères 1656-1740 Paris)

A girl knitting

Closed30 January 2014

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Attributed to André Bouys (Hyères 1656-1740 Paris)
A girl knitting
oil on canvas
36½ x 28½ in. (92.1 x 72.4 cm.)

Mr. and Mrs. Isaac D. Fletcher, New York, as Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, by whom bequeathed in 1917 to
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Specialist note

A pair of pictures attributed to Bouys by Michel and Fabrice Faré (La vie silencieuse en France: la nature morte au XVIIIe siècle, Fribourg, 1976, p. 45, figs. 51 and 52, each 73 x 81 cm, private collection, France) are close in style. One shows a young woman with a pleated cap, apparently a servant, and the other a young man who is probably a servant as well; each is seated at a table with a still life before them.