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François BOUCHER (Paris 1703-1770) Second view of Fronville;…
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Lot no. 76
Estimate: €8,000 - €12,000
Sale date : 11/19/2025 at 2:00 PM
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Drawings, watercolours & pastels
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François BOUCHER (Paris 1703-1770) Second view of Fronville; animated farm with a shelter of branches Black stone and stump, annotated and dated by another hand lower right in pen and brown ink F. Boucher 1761 (slightly insolated, pasted on an old mount). 31.5 x 47 cm In an antique Louis XVI carved and giltwood frame. Provenance : Former JOSEPH-RIGNAULT collection (L2218 lower left); its sale, Paris, Hôtel DROUOT, 26 May 1937, no. 33 (as attributed to BOUCHER). Anonymous sale, Paris, Hôtel DROUOT, 13 February 1939, no. 8 (as François BOUCHER), reproduced. Anonymous sale, Paris, CHRISTIE'S, 10 April 2013, n° 64, reproduced. Related work: Engraved in reverse by William WYNNE RYLAND (London 1732-1783) under the title Deuxième vue de Fronville (see P.JEAN-RICHARD, L'oeuvre gravée de François BOUCHER dans la collection Edmond de ROTHSCHILD, Inventaire général des gravures, Louvre, Paris, 1978, RMN editions, n° 1543, reproduced). This landscape from the early 1760s was engraved by William Wynne Ryland when he came to Paris to take lessons from Le BAS and Boucher. Later appointed engraver to the King of England, this singular character was implicated in a case of counterfeit money and was sentenced to death by hanging. Another sheet in the same technique, dating from around 1755-58, is in the Albertina in Vienna (A. LAING, Les dessins de François BOUCHER, New York, FRICK Collection, 2003, No. 91, repr.). At the 2013 sale, CHRISTIE'S thanked Mr LAING for his help in writing their notice. We would like to thank Madame Françoise JOULIE who kindly confirmed the authenticity of this drawing after a visual examination. We would like to thank Mrs Laure Aline Demazure for kindly confirming the authenticity of this drawing after an in-person examination. The drawing will be included in the catalogue raisonné of the artist's drawings by A. Laing - LA Démazure currently in preparation.
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