François Boucher

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François Boucher

1703-1770

Young Girl with a Bird Cage

Black and white chalks, with some red and blue, some stumping, on light brown paper.

14 13/16 x 12 1/16 inches (377 x 307 mm)

Gift of Mrs. Francis Kettaneh.

1980.41

Notes:

Watermark: countermark GWP.
The drawing was used for the figure of the seated girl in the center of the painting "Group of Men and Women with Bird Cages", formerly in the Lord Michelham collection and now in the Getty Museum, Malibu, Calif.
According to Ananoff, there was a very similar version of the present drawing in the possession of Stephen Higgons, Paris.

Provenance:

M.A. Lion; his sale, 18-19 November 1908, lot 11; Marius Paulme (Lugt 1910); his sale, 13 May 1929, lot 30, repr. pl. 24; Georges Blumenthal, New York; William H. Schab Gallery, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Francis Kettaneh, New York.

Associated names:

Lion, M. A., former owner.
Paulme, Marius, former owner.
Blumenthal, Georges, former owner.
Kettaneh, Francis Anthony Bernard, 1897-1976, former owner.
Kettaneh, Mary Shoucair, former owner.

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Nineteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978-1980. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981, p. 179.
Alexandre Ananoff, with the collaboration of Daniel Wildenstein, "François Boucher", 2 vols., Lausanne and Paris, 1976, II, fig. 934, no. 324/4 (erroneously identified as in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York)
Burton B. Frederickson, Catalogue of the Paintings in the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1972, under no. 131.
Alexandre Ananoff, L'Oeuvre dessiné de François Boucher, I, Paris, 1966, no. 182, repr.

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