François Boucher

François Boucher
Deux paysannes près d'une fontaine rustique, 1765
[Repos au puits]
Oil on canvas, 35.5 x 44 cm
Signed and dated lower left: f. Boucher 1765
Ananoff no. 616
Provenance
Pierre-Louis-Paul Randon de Boisset (ca. 1765–[d.]1776) (1) § Jean-Louis Millon Dainval (1777) (2) §
Clifford Duits, London (by 1954/55) (3) § Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London (4) § Emil Bührle, Zurich
(27 June 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956) (5) § Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the
Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, no. 122 (1960).
(1) Possibly received from the artist as a gift, in memory of a common journey to Holland ca. 1763/64, François
Boucher, (exh. cat.) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1986–87, p. 42; Catalogue des Tableaux &
Desseins précieux des Maîtres célèbres des trois Ecoles […] du Cabinet de feu M. Randon de Boisset […], (sale
cat.) Paris (27 February–25 March 1777), no. 198.
(2) Nephew of the above, acquired at the above sale for 888 livres, Ananoff no. 616.
(3) European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, (exh. cat.) Royal Academy of Arts, London 1954–55, no. 458.
(4) AStEGB, Inventory Card Boucher, Deux paysannes.
(5) Acquired from the above for £ 5.200 (= CHF 62.400), AStEGB, Price list, handwritten by Emil Bührle and
containing the names of 5 artists, including "Boucher"; the Price list was drawn up for a group of mostly Old
Master paintings whose purchase Bührle was negotiating with Frank Lloyd from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd.,
London; that part of the purchase came to £ 66.000 (= CHF 792.000) and included Courbet's Chasseur,
Goya's Procession, Ochtervelt's Backgammon Players, and Sisley's St-Mammès, all now in the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection; AStEGB, Entry Book II, 27 June 1955, lists part of these paintings, along with a group
of 4 drawings by Picasso which Bührle acquired around the same time.
Exhibitions
European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1954–55, no. 458. §
Schönheit des 18. Jahrhunderts, Kunsthaus Zurich 1955, no. 27.
References
Pierre de Nolhac, François Boucher, Premier peintre du Roi 1703–1770, Paris 1907, pp. 94, 164. §
Denis Diderot, Salons, Jean Seznec (ed.), vol. 2, 1765, 2Oxford 1979, pp. 20, 80, fig. 19.
Catalogues of the Bührle Collection: 1966 & 1971, no. 122; 1973/86, no. 2; 1994/95, p. 21;
2004/05: no. 31. ▪ Exhibitions of the Bührle Collection: Zurich 2010, no. 122.
Catalogues, exhibitions and articles cited in full see http://www.buehrle.ch/pdf/egbcat.pdf.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Status as per January 2016
www.buehrle.ch / [email protected]
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