François Boucher

Literature

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 443
Philip Conisbee, French paintings of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, Washington; Princeton, N.J., 2009, nr. 3

Literature
Yuriko Jackall et al., America collects eighteenth-century French painting, Washington; London, 2017, plate 3

Exhibitions

2017 America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting

Provenance

Painted for Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764) and installed in the appartement des bains in the Château de Bellevue, outside Paris
removed c. 1757
recorded 1764 in the vestibule of the ground floor of the Hôtel d'Evreux, Pompador's Parisian residence
by inheritance to her brother, Abel François Poisson, marquis de Ménars et de Marigny (1727-1781), Château de Ménars, Paris
installed in the gallery of Marigny's residence, rue St. Thomas du Louvre, Paris, by 1777
his estate sale, at his residence by Basan and Joullain, Paris, 18 March-6 April 1782 (postponed from late February), nr. 21
purchased by Jean Baptiste Pierre Le Brun (1748-1813), Paris and London
Baron Alfred Charles de Rothschild (1842-1918), Halton House, near Wendover, Buckinghamshire, by 1884
bequest to Grace Elvina Hinds Duggan Curzon, marchioness of Curzon (1879-1958), Kedleston Hall, Derby, Derbyshire
her sale, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, New York, 22 April 1932, nr. 80
Chester Dale (1883-1962), New York
gift 1943 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1943.7.2

Other works by François Boucher

Cupid a Captive

Shepherd piping to a Shepherdess

Madame Bergeret
c. 1766

Venus

Mercury confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs