François Boucher

M. Morel, his (anonymous) sale et al., Paris, Lebrun 3 May 1786 (postponed from 19 April), lot 154, 131 livres to Langlier;

Hubert Robert (1733–1808), Paris;

His posthumous sale, Paris, 5–12 April 1809, lot 34 (with companion): ‘Deux paysages en forme ovale, avec Chaumieres et fabriques. Dans l'um, un jeune garçon qui pêche à la Ligne; dans l'autre, des Villageois qui conduisent un Bateau’, for 25 francs;

Horsin Déon, Paris;

His sale, Paris, Escribe, 26–27 March 1868, lot 2 (with pendant as lot 3), for 1260 francs;

Otto Mundler, his posthumous sale Paris, Pillet, 27 November 1868, lot 2, for 3120 francs;

Anonymous sale, Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1 June 1949, lot 34 (with pendant), for 3m francs to Baron Cassel;

Baron and Baroness Cassel van Doorn, their sale Paris, Galere Charpentier, 9 March 1954, lot 23 (with pendant lot 24) for 3.5m francs;

Private collection, Paris.

E. and J. de Goncourt, L'Art du XVIIIeme Siècle, Paris 1880, p. 208;

A. Michel, François Boucher (catalogue by L. Souillé and C. Masson), Paris 1906, no. 1553;

A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, François Boucher, Lausanne and Paris 1976, vol. II, p. 260, cat. no. 627, reproduced p. 261 (as pendant to lot 42 in this sale);

A. Ananoff and D. Wildenstein, L'opera completa di Boucher, Milan 1980, pp. 138–39, no. 663, reproduced (as dated 1776 and as pendant to lot 42 in this sale).

Engraved

The compositon engraved in rectangular format by René Gaillard (1719–1790), under the title ‘Les villageois à la pêche’