Provenance
1Pierre-Louis-Paul Randon de Boissetca. 1765–[d.]1776 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.
2Jean-Louis Millon Dainval 1777 Nephew of the above, acquired at the above sale for 888 livres, Ananoff no. 616.
3Clifford Duits London • by 1954/55 European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, (exh. cat.) Royal Academy of Arts, London 1954–55, no. 458.
4Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London AStEGB, Inventory Card Boucher, Deux paysannes.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 27 June 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 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 Portrait of a Man, Goya's Procession, and Ochtervelt's Backgammon Players (all now in the Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 24, 143, 155); 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.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 122.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
Alexandre Ananoff, François Boucher, 2 vol., Lausanne & Paris, 1976.
Exhibitions
1954European Masters of the Eighteenth Century Royal Academy of Arts • London • 1954–55 no. 458.
1955Schönheit des 18. Jahrhunderts Kunsthaus Zurich • 1955 no. 27.
2010Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Die Sammlung Bührle zu Gast im Kunsthaus Zürich Kunsthaus Zurich • 2010 no. 122.
2020François Boucher, Künstler des RokokoStaatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe • 2020–21 no. 92.
References
1907Pierre de Nolhac François Boucher, Premier peintre du Roi 1703–1770 Paris • 1907 • pp. 94, 164.
1973Leopold Reidemeister etc. Stiftung Sammlung Emil G. Bührle • Fondation Collection Emil G. Bührle • Foundation Emil G. Bührle Collection Zurich & Munich • 1973 • no. 2 (ill.;21986).
1979Denis Diderot Salons Jean Seznec (ed.) • vol. 2 • 1765, 2Oxford 1979, pp. 20, 80, fig. 19.
1994Emil Maurer Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich Bern • 1994 • p. 21 (English edition: Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Bern 1995).
2005Lukas Gloor, Marco Goldin (ed.) Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, Catalogue vol. 2 • Conegliano & Zurich 2005 • no. 31 (ill.; German edition: Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Katalog • Italian edition: Fondazione Collezione E.G. Bührle, Catalogo).
2021Lukas Gloor «The Holdings of the Emil Bührle Collection: Illustrated List of All 633 Purchases» in The Emil Bührle Collection: History, Full Catalogue and 70 Masterpieces Swiss Institute for Art Research, Zurich (ed.), Munich 2021, no. 445 (ill.).