Live Auction 10713Old Master & British Drawings & Watercolours
French School, 18th Century
Lot 112

French School, 18th Century

A woman seen from behind, after François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770) (recto); Head of a young woman (verso)

Closed9 December 2015

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GBP 812

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French School, 18th Century
A woman seen from behind, after François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770) (recto); Head of a young woman (verso)
proprietary watermark
black and red chalk (recto); black chalk, stumping (verso)
9 1/8 x 11 7/8 in. (23.3 x 30.3 cm.)

Specialist note

A copy after a drawing by Boucher in a private collection (A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Lausanne, 1976, no. 321/1), which is a study for the woman holding flowers in The fountain of love, a finished cartoon for a tapestry, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (Inv. 71.PA.37; A. Ananoff, op. cit., no. 321).