Live Auction 16185A Love Affair with France: The Elizabeth Stafford Collection
Jacques Charlier (active in Paris, 1720-1790)
Lot 1127

Jacques Charlier (active in Paris, 1720-1790)

The Birth of Venus

Closed1 November 2018

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Jacques Charlier (active in Paris, 1720-1790)
The Birth of Venus
watercolor and bodycolor, oval
13 ½ x 10 ½ in. (34.2 x 26.6 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Paris, 21-22 June 1920, lot 132 (as Amphitrite).
with Galerie Georges Petit, Paris.
with Galerie Pardo, Paris, 1981.

Specialist note

A friend and collaborator of François Boucher, Charlier is best known for his refined miniatures of the master's paintings. A record of an important lost work, this Birth of Venus reproduces a canvas completed by Boucher in 1764 for M. Jacqmin, the Royal jeweler, and recorded today by an engraving by Jean-Charles Lavasseur (A. Ananoff, François Boucher, II, Paris, 1966, no. 577).