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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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by 1906 date QS:P,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : C.J. Wertheimer, London
by 1906date QS:P,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1906-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 – 1925 előttdate QS:P,+1925-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1925-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Joseph Bardac, Párizs
by 1932date QS:P,+1932-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1932-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Hector Pétin, Párizs
by 1964date QS:P,+1964-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1964-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 – 1970. március 5.: Mme. Hector Pétin, Párizs
1970. március 5.: Agnew's, London, megvette egy ismeretlen eladótól, Palais Galliera aukciós házban
1970. október: megvette
- James Fairfax (1933), Bowral, , eladó: Agnew's, London
1992. június 4.: adományként kapta: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, , adományozó: James Fairfax, Bowral
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Exposition François Boucher (1703-1770), Hôtel de Jean Charpentier, Párizs, 1932. június 9.–1932. július 10., kat. no. 99, p. 44.
Réhabilitation du sujet, André J. Seligmann, Párizs, 1934. november 17.–1934. december 9., kat. no. 14, p. 27.
Exposition de portraits français de 1400 à 1900, André J. Seligmann, Párizs, 1936. június 9.–1936. július 1., kat. no. 46, p. 42.
François Boucher. Premier peintre du roi, 1703-1770, Galerie Cailleux, Párizs, 1964. május–1964. június, kat. no. 31.
France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academie of Arts, London, 1968. január 6.–1968. március 3., kat. no. 45, p. 48.
Paintings and drawings from Agnew's, London, David Jones Art Gallery, Sydney, 1970. október 7.–1970. október 24., kat. no. 27.
Private treasures. An exhibition of art from Australian private collectors covering a period of five centuries, David Jones' Art Gallery, Sydney, 1978. január 10.–1978. január 21., kat. no. 8.
The James Fairfax collection of old masters, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1992. április 25.–1992. június 14., without kat. no.
Great gifts, great patrons. An exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1994. augusztus 17.–1994. október 19., without kat. no.
The James Fairfax collection of old master paintings, drawings and prints, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2003. április 17.–2003. július 20., ISBN 0734763417, p. 37-39.
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