François Boucher

Putti making music



François Boucher - Putti making music



François Boucher
Putti making music
1768
51 x 134 cm
Oil on canvas
Sale Christie's, London, 5 July 2011


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

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