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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
Lot 22

FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)

A standing boy, with a reclining boy behind him

Closed17 April 2024

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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
Boucher, F.
A standing boy, with a reclining boy behind him
black and brown chalk, heightened with white, on light brown paper
10 3/8 x 6 7/8 in. (26.3 x 17.3 cm)

Marquis de Varennes; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 May 1922, lot 62.
René Kieffer (1875-1964), and his wife, Paris; Hôtel George V, Paris, 29 May 1969, lot 4.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 11 January 1994, lot 302.

Specialist note

This composition was translated into print by Gilles Demarteau (1722-1776). According to the date on the engraving Boucher executed the model in 1768, probably a painting, two years before his death. The drawing is characteristic of Boucher’s studies of children produced in the last years of his career.

We are grateful to Alastair Laing for confirming the attribution of the drawing on the basis of a photograph.