François Boucher
1703-1770
Young Girl with a Bird Cage
14 13/16 x 12 1/16 inches (377 x 307 mm)
Black and white chalks, with some red and blue, some stumping, on light brown paper.
1980.41
Gift of Mrs. Francis Kettaneh.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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