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CIRCLE OF FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
Lot 117 Property from the Collection of Dr. Corinne Bronfman

CIRCLE OF FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)

Four heads of Roman soldiers

Closed1 February 2024

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CIRCLE OF FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
Four heads of Roman soldiers
black chalk, brush and gray and brown-red ink
11 x 8 ½ in. (27.8x 21.6 cm)

Efim Shapiro (1899-1977), London (L. 2343a); Sotheby’s, London, 22 February 1956, lot 13.
with Kenneth J. Hewett (1909-1994), London.
Gerald Bronfman (1911-1986) and Marjorie Bronfman, née Schechter (1917-2012), Montreal; by descent to
Corinne Bronfman (1947-2022), Washington DC; by descent to the present owners.

Specialist note

A copy of three of the four heads in plate 8 of Jean-Baptiste Hutin’s set of engravings after Boucher’s drawings entitled Recueil de Differents caractères de Testes Dessinées d’après la Colonne Trajane par François Boucher Peintre du Roy published in Paris in 1750. As Alastair Laing pointed out, Boucher did not make copies of the Trajan’s Column in Rome, but rather he sketched the heads copying the casts of the column that were kept at the Académie.

We thank Alastair Laing for his kind help in cataloguing this lot.