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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (PARIS 1703-1770)
Venus and Cupid
black and white chalk, touches of blue pastel, on light brown paper
11 3/8 x 7 in. (29 x 18 cm)
Provenance
Count Jan Pieter van Suchtelen (1751-1836), St. Petersburg (L. 2332).
John Postle Heseltine (1883-1929), London (L. 1507).
with E. Gimpel & Wildenstein, New York.
with Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Millicent Rogers (1902-1953), New York.
Literature
J.P. Heseltine, Drawings by François Boucher Jean Honoré Fragonard and Antoine Watteau in the Collection of J.P.H., London, 1900, no. 19, ill.
J.P. Heseltine, Drawings of the French School from the Collection of J.P.H., London, 1913, no. 7, ill.
A. Ananoff, L'Œuvre dessiné de François Boucher (1703-1770). Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1966, no. 780, fig. 127.
A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, François Boucher I, Paris, 1976, no. 270/2, fig. 806.
P. Jean-Richard, L'Œuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, 1978, p. 353, under no. 1461.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Catalogue de dessins de l’école française du dix-huitième siècle provenant de la collection Heseltine, 1913, no. 7.
Washington, National Gallery of Art and elsewhere, François Boucher in North American Collections. 100 Drawings, exhib. cat., 1973-74, no. 21, ill. (catalogue by R. S. Slatkin).