The Little gardener
Boucher, François
París, 1703 - 1770
The Little gardener, ca. 1754 (Petite Jardinière) (Girl Leaning on a Rake)
Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection.
Oil on canvas
46,5 x 38 cm
CTB.2014.121.1
Artwork history
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Sale, París. Hotel Drouot, 29 April 1892, lots 3 and 4.
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Henry T, Dortic, Paris.
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Sale New York, American Art Association, 14-15 December 1923, lots 508 and 509.
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Count Alfonso P Villa, New York. By whose Estate sold (“Property 01 the Estate of the Late Count Allonso P. Villa”), New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 12 March 1969, lot 45 (as a pair).
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C. Michael Paul Collection.
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Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 16 July 1969, lot 46A (as a pair), to P. Elsbury lot for £950. With Francois Heim, by 1979.
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Anonymous sale, Monaco, Sotheby’s, 22 June 1985, lot 167 (as a pair).
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Madame Perrine Deguemp, Neuilly, France, unti11987; from whom acquired by private collection.
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Sotheby’s auctions, New York, June 6th, 2014. Old Master Paintings, lot 90.
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Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection.
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-A. Michel, François Boucher, Paris, n.d. [1906], p. 87, no. 1556.
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-A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Paris 1976, vol. 11, p.129, cat. n. 449 & 450, reproduced figs. 1263 & 1264.
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-A. Ananoff, L’Opera Completa di Boucher, Milano, 1980, p.123, cat. n. 470 & 471, reproduced p. 124.
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-Stair Sainty Matthiesen, François Boucher, His Circle and Influence, [Exhibition catalogue], New York, 1987, p. 61. under cat. no. 37.
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-EA, Standen, “Country Children: Some Enfants de Boucher in Gobelins Tapestry,” in Metropolitan Museum Journal, XXIX, 1994, pp. 120-121, 124, 131, notes 56 & 57, reproduced, figs. 36 and 38.