François Boucher

Provenance

Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell, London, by whom sold in June 1912 to
Nathan Wildenstein, and by descent to
Georges Wildenstein, from whom confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg whilst in storage at the Banque de France, 15 January 1943 (ERR Code W27)
transferred to the Munich Collecting Point (Mü 731/12) by Western Allied Forces, 25 June 1945 and repatriated to France, 19 September 1946
restituted to Wildenstein, Paris
sale Christie's, London, 5 July 2011, nr. 18

Other works by François Boucher

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
1750

The Four Seasons: Autumn
1755

Venus Asking Vulcan for Arms for Aenneas
1732

Les Bergers à la Fontaine

Architecture and Chemistry
1750-52