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English: "With his pupil Fragonard, François Boucher is rightly held to epitomise the rococo sensibility in French eighteenth-century painting. Refined in intelligence as much as in taste, Boucher's art is a celebration of surface, not superficiality. His love of silks, satins, velvets, furs and brocades is exceeded only by his devotion to the pearly properties of youthful skin, especially female skin. Whether painting the mythical subjects that characterise his larger commissions, or, as
here, an intimate portrait of his wife, Marie-Jeanne Buseau, Boucher brought to the task an attention to detail and a sense of delight that are definitively rococo.This painting wittily, and not at either's expense, juxtaposes the very different beauties of a charming woman and her lapdog. The latter is a canine inclusion not without sexual connotation in the iconography of the period - though Boucher can hardly be thought to portray his spouse in the role of teasing mistress. The slightly generic cast of her face, echoing those of the nymphs and shepherdesses prolifically rendered by this artist, is attributable to the fact that Marie-Jeanne was Boucher's model for almost two decades." [1]
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Historique de conservation |
1906 (au plus tard) date QS:P,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : C.J. Wertheimer, Londres
du 1906 (au plus tard)date QS:P,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 au avant 1925date QS:P,+1925-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1925-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Joseph Bardac, Paris
1932 (au plus tard)date QS:P,+1932-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1932-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Hector Pétin, Paris
du 1964 (au plus tard)date QS:P,+1964-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1964-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 au 5 mars 1970: Mme. Hector Pétin, Paris
5 mars 1970 : acheté par Agnew's, Londres, dans une vente anonyme à Palais Galliera (salle de vente aux enchères), lot numéro 16
octobre 1970 : acheté par James Fairfax (1933), Bowral, à Agnew's, Londres
4 juin 1992 : donné à la Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, par James Fairfax, Bowral
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Expositions |
Exposition François Boucher (1703-1770), Hôtel de Jean Charpentier, Paris, 9 juin 1932–10 juillet 1932, cat. nº 99, p. 44.
Réhabilitation du sujet, André J. Seligmann, Paris, 17 novembre 1934–9 décembre 1934, cat. nº 14, p. 27.
Exposition de portraits français de 1400 à 1900, André J. Seligmann, Paris, 9 juin 1936–1er juillet 1936, cat. nº 46, p. 42.
François Boucher. Premier peintre du roi, 1703-1770, Galerie Cailleux, Paris, mai 1964–juin 1964, cat. nº 31.
France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academie of Arts, Londres, 6 janvier 1968–3 mars 1968, cat. nº 45, p. 48.
Paintings and drawings from Agnew's, London, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, 7 octobre 1970–24 octobre 1970, cat. nº 27.
Private treasures. An exhibition of art from Australian private collectors covering a period of five centuries, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 10 janvier 1978–21 janvier 1978, cat. nº 8.
The James Fairfax collection of old masters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 25 avril 1992–14 juin 1992, sans cat. nº
Great gifts, great patrons. An exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 août 1994–19 octobre 1994, sans cat. nº
The James Fairfax collection of old master paintings, drawings and prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 avril 2003–20 juillet 2003, ISBN 0734763417, p. 37-39.
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