Le Galant Pecheur

François Boucher (1703 - 1770)

Manchester Art Gallery

1768

Signed and dated lower right 'F Boucher PDR (for Peintre du Roi) 1768'.

• Medium: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: 51 x 66 cm
• Grant Paid: £20,000 ( Total: £80,000)
• ArtFunded in: 1981
• Vendor: David Carritt

Provenance

One of the two companion pictures by Boucher that were offered together at the Duc de Caylus' sale in 1773; Baron Carl Mayer de Rothschild; private collection 1935; Rene Fribourg; Comte Rivaud de la Raffiniere, Paris; private collection sold Palais Galliera, Paris 1972.

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