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The Fisherboy
François Boucher · n.d.
Provenance
Ownership history
- Jean Francois Gigoux, Paris; sold, 1873. Marquis de Fourquevaulx, Paris; sold by Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 18-20, 1876, lot 276. Sold by Wildenstein and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1960.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 48, pl. XVIII, as "Boy Fishing."
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 66-67, cat. 32 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
- Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "François Boucher in North American Collectons: 100 Drawings," December 23, 1973-March 17, 1974, pp. 73-74, cat. 57 (ill.), cat. by Regina Schoolman Slatkin; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 4-May 12, 1974.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, p. 53, cat. 41 (ill.).
- Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 8 (ill.).
- Frankfurt-am-Main, Stadtische Galerie, "Franzosische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 26-27, cat. 8 (ill.).
- New York, Wildenstein and Company, "François Boucher," November 11-December 19, 1980.
- Paris, Musée du Louvre, "À l'ombre des frondaisons d'Arcueil", March 23 - June 20, 2016.
Literature
Published references
- E. and J. de Goncourt, L'Art du Dix-Huitième Siècle, I (Paris, 1880), p. 208.
- André Michel, François Boucher (Paris, 1906), no. 1950 or 1960.
- M. Roux, Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XVIIIe Siècle, XIV (Paris, 1939), no. 22.
- Victor Carlson, "Three Drawings by François Boucher," Master Drawings IV (1966), pp. 157-163.
- P. Jean-Richard, François Boucher, Gravures et Dessins Provenant du Cabinet des Dessins et de la Collection Edmond de Rothschild au Musée du Louvre (Paris, 1971), no. 48.
- C. O. Baer, Landscape Drawings (New York, 1973), no. 105.
- J. F. Méjanès, "A Spontaneous Feeling for Nature, French 18th Century Landscape Drawings," Apollo, CIV (1976), pp. 396-97, fig. 2.
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), pp. 13-14, no. 1A9.
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection (San Francisco, 2000).
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