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Bathing Nymph
François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)LinkedCulture matchlcp-5df9b5ab1c88
- Date
- c. 1745–50
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 10287
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- Credit line
- Wilson L. Mead Fund
- Provenance
- Possibly sold Chariot and Paillet, Hôtel d’Aligre (Baché, Brilliant, de Cossé, Quené, et al.), Paris, April 22 and following, 1776, no. 77, for 362 livres [the picture is described as “Une Baigneuse. Elle est assise près d’un gros arbre. Le fond est un joli paysage, d’un touché légere & de gout. Ce tableau, d’un ton ferme & argentin, peut être distingué dans les meilleurs de ce Maître: il est très-agréable.”; price according to a letter from Alastair Laing to Susan Wise, dated April 19, [1985]]. Possibly Louis François I de Bourbon, prince de Conti (died 1776), Paris; sold Pierre Remy, Paris, April 8 and following, 1777, no. 722, to Quenet for 330 livres [the picture is described as “Une femme assise qui se lave les jambs dans un pièce d’eau; du paysage fait le fond de ce tableau qui est vaporeux: il est peint sur toile de forme ovale; hauteur 19 pouces, largeur 18 pouces.”; price and buyer according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Bibliothèque d’Art et d’Archéologie, Paris]. Private collection, England [according to a telegram from Karl Lilienfeld, Van Diemen Galleries, New York, to Robert Harshe dated December 28, 1931, Archives, Art Institute]. Van Diemen and Co. and Dr. Benedict and Co., Berlin, by 1931 [date according to the letter cited above; a letter from René Gimpel to Van Diemen and Co. and Dr. Benedict and Co., dated February 1, 1932, Archives, Art Institute, indicates that they had shown it to Gimpel in Berlin]; sold to the Art Institute through Van Diemen Galleries, New York, 1931.
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- AAT300033618
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