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François Boucher (Paris 1703-1770) The Landscape Painter signed with initials 'f.B.F' (lower right, on the chair) oil on canvas 16 1/8 x 12 5/8 in. (40.8 x 32 cm.) Provenance Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne sculptor and Rector of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (1704-1778), Paris; his sale (†), Le Brun, Paris, 10 August 1778, lot 18, sold together with its apparent pendant, Le sculpteur dans son atelier, actually by Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre, where acquired by his son, Pierre-Hippolyte Lemoyne (1748-1828), Paris; his sale (†), Duchesne, Paris, 19 May 1828, lot 74 (FF 120). James-Alexandre, Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier (1776-1855), Hôtel Pourtalès, x-apple-data-detectors://7; his sale (†), on the premises, 27 March-4 April 1865, lot 228 (FF 7,000). Halil Serif Pasha (1831-1879), Paris; his sale, Paris, 16-18 January 1868, lot 72 (FF 14,000). Anatole Auguste Hulot (1811-1891), Paris; his sale (†), Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9-10 May 1892, lot 80 (FF 25,000). Alexandrine de Rothschild (1884-1965), Paris. Confiscated by the Devisenschutzkommando from the above and relinquished to the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg at the Jeu de Paume, 12 October 1942. Transferred to the Nazi depot at Neuschwanstein, then shipped to Lager Peter, Alt Aussee, Austria, 27 October 1944. Repatriated to France, 18 October 1945 and restituted to Baronne Alexandrine de Rothschild, 19 March 1944. Baron Edmond Adolphe de Rothschild (1926-1997), Château de Prégny, Switzerland. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Paris, 21 June 2012, lot 52. with Jean-Luc Baroni, London, where acquired by the present owner.