François Boucher

Literature

Yuriko Jackall et al., America collects eighteenth-century French painting, Washington; London, 2017, p. 143, fig. 3

Provenance

Pierre-Jacques-Onésyme Bergeret de Grancourt (b. 1715 - d. 1785), Paris, by 1769
posthumous Bergeret de Grancourt sale, Hôtel de Bergeret, Paris, 24 April 1786, nr. 46, not sold
anonymous sale, Beurdley, Paris, 21-22 December 1846, nr. 2
probably acquired in Paris by Edward Preble Deacon (b. 1813 - d. 1851) and his wife, Sarahann Parker Deacon (b. 1821 - d. 1900), Boston, 1846/1848
to Mrs. Deacon's father, Peter Parker (b. 1785 - d. 1870), Boston, 1861
Deacon House sale, Leonard and Co., Boston 1-3 February 1871 (unnumbered catalogue), sold to Franklin for the heirs of Peter Parker
gift of the heirs of Peter Parker to the MFA, 1871 (Accession Date: 10 March 1871)

External links

Museum of Fine Arts Accession number 71.3

Other works by François Boucher

Painting and Sculpture
1750-52

The Angler
1759

Drawing

Astronomy and Hydraulics
1750-52

The Four Seasons: Summer
1755