Live Auction 14448The Collection of Raine, Countess Spencer
After François Boucher
Lot 42

After François Boucher

Marie-Louise O'Murphy lying on a bed

Closed13 July 2017

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GBP 2,125

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After François Boucher
Marie-Louise O'Murphy lying on a bed
traces of black chalk, bodycolour on vellum, laid down on card
11 5/8 x 13 7/8 in. (29.5 x 35.3 cm.)

Specialist note

This composition derives from Boucher's famous painting executed in 1752 in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (inv. 1166). It shows Marie-Louise O'Murphy, one of King Louis XV's Petite maîtresse, in an unusually lascivious pose. Petite maîtresse were not formerly presented at court opposed to the King's Maîtresse-en-titre who were entitled to an apartment at Versailles.