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Dog standing on its hind legs

Maker

(artist)
1703-1770

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1686-1755

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1755

Medium

red, black and white chalk on brown laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.6 cm
Width: 11.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4263

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Boucher drew this little spaniel as a study for a tapestry for the royal tapestry works at Beauvais, where, from 1734, he was the principal designer. In the ‘Jouer de flûte’ (one of a set entitled ‘La Noble Pastorale’) the dog dances to music played by a shepherd and shepherdess. In keeping with the romantic setting it is depicted as a lapdog rather than a working sheepdog. Small spaniels were particularly favoured by royalty and the aristocracy at this time.

Provenance

Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974), L.2811b; his sale, Sotheby’s (London), 2 November 1949, lot 25 (as by Oudry); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£20); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

XVIIIth Century French drawings, Queen's College, Belfast, November - December 1957

Boucher - Landscapes, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England, 22/01/2005-27/03/2005

Boucher - Landscapes, Wallace Collection, London, 30/09/2004-19/12/2004 ...More

Captured on Paper, Animals in the Prints and Drawings Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2002-11/08/2002

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

French drawings of the 17th and 18th century, Fermoy Art Gallery, King's Lynn, 1985

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1968-03/03/1968

Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, 1959

French 17th Century Drawings, Bristol City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1956 ...Less

Literature

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 4, p. 16
ill. on p. 17

French drawings of the 17th and 18th century, Fermoy Art Gallery, King's Lynn, 1985
cat. no. 3

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 551 ...More

Ananoff, Alexander, L'Opera completa di Boucher, Milano: Rizzoli 1980
p. 121
no. 437 for associated painting ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: lower left, brown ink: “9” or “6”; lower left, graphite: “oudry del”. Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Verso: centre, graphite: “Oudry”.

Collector's mark: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b). Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: at lower left and again at lower right, stamped in black ink: Carl Robert Rudolf (L.2811b).

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