Navolger François Boucher
Dispatch of the messenger. After the canvas exhibited at the Salon in 1765, currently in the Met Museum in New York (coll. no. 44.141). The original painting was exhibited with three others under a single number to form the narrative of a love story, a second painting depicted the arrival of the dove carrying a love letter, a third a showed a shepherdess read the letter aloud to her confidante, and the fourth depicted the lovers finally meeting. There are two black chalk drawings by Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (1731–1797) after the first two ovals, made in preparation for engravings. These were exhibited at the Salon of 1769, therefore also dating this mirrored composition after 1769.
Afmeting: Doek (ovaal) 58 x 48 cm.
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Dispatch of the messenger. After the canvas exhibited at the Salon in 1765, currently in the Met Museum in New York (coll. no. 44.141). The original painting was exhibited with three others under a single number to form the narrative of a love story, a second painting depicted the arrival of the dove carrying a love letter, a third a showed a shepherdess read the letter aloud to her confidante, and the fourth depicted the lovers finally meeting. There are two black chalk drawings by Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet (1731–1797) after the first two ovals, made in preparation for engravings. These were exhibited at the Salon of 1769, therefore also dating this mirrored composition after 1769.
Afmeting: Doek (ovaal) 58 x 48 cm.
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