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Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
FRANÇOIS BOUCHER (Paris 1703-1770 Paris) Two Satyrs.
Black and white chalk on grayish tan laid paper. 265x402 mm; 10 1/2x15 3/4 inches. Inscribed "F. Boucher" in ink, lower left recto. Ex-collection Charles Gasc (Lugt 542, lower center recto); and unknown collector, sold Christie's, London, July 8, 1980, lot 79.
Published in Ananoff/Wildenstein, François Boucher, Paris, 1976, number 519/9; and Bonnier, François Boucher: Dessins, Paris, 1988, pp. 78-79.
A study for two figures in the Beauvais tapestry of Neptune Rescuing Ameymone (see Ananoff/Wildenstein, op cit, number 376), one of a series of tapestries from Les Amours des Dieux that Boucher began designing in the late 1740s.
