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François Boucher: An allegory of music  wikidata:Q125470727 reasonator:Q125470727
Artist
François Boucher  (1703–1770)  wikidata:Q180932 q:ru:Франсуа Буше
 
François Boucher
Description French painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, illustrator, etcher and drawer
Date of birth/death 29 September 1703 Edit this at Wikidata 30 May 1770 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
Work period from 1720 until 1770
date QS:P,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1720-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1770-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Paris (1720–1770), Northern Netherlands (1766)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q180932
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
An allegory of music
label QS:Len,"An allegory of music"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 18th century
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 59.1 cm (23.2 in); width: 59.1 cm (23.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,59.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,59.1U174728
Unidentified location  
 
Description 18th-century painting with Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location
label QS:Len,"Not identified, Not provided, Unspecified, Unmentioned or UnknownUnknown location"
and year.
Object history
  • Jacques Doucet, Paris, until 1912;
  • His sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6 June 1912, lot 133;
  • Baroness Valentine Springer (nee Rothschild), Vienna;
  • Sold forcibly to the Gemäldegalerie des Kunsthistorischen Museums, Vienna and restituted on November 26 1947;
  • With Galerie Segoura, Paris;
  • From whom purchased by the present collectors.
  • Auction:: Sotheby's, New York, 5 June 2014, Old Master Paintings, lot 53, Property From An Important American Collection.
Source/Photographer http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/old-master-paintings-n09161/lot.53.html
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  • Allegory of poetry
    Allegory of poetry

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