Landscape with Castle and Mill
Artist
François Boucher
French, 1703–1770
Datecirca 1765
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
Frame: 28 3/4 x 38 x 3 1/2 in. (73 x 96.5 x 8.9 cm)
Frame: 28 3/4 x 38 x 3 1/2 in. (73 x 96.5 x 8.9 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.120
On View
Not on viewProvenanceCreated France, circa 1765 [1]. Sir Hugh John Francis Sibthorp Cholmeley (1906–1964), 5th Baronet, Easton Hall, near Grantham, by 1942 [2]. [David M. Koetser, New York, NY] [3]; sold to NCMA, 1952.
[1] Previous iterations of this painting's provenance have cited the Goutte collection, Paris. It's unclear when this name became attached to the painting's provenance. The evidence cited is the Goutte sale, Bonnefons de Lavaille, Paris, March 29 1841, no. 197, Lot described in catalogue as "paysage avec château à tourelles et une jolie figure", 50 x 60 cm. NCMA painting is 51 x 76 cm. After conservation assessment and treament in 2024, there's no physical indication that the painting was expanded to its current dimensions, or that it ever had just one female figure, as described in the Goutte catalogue.
[2] Ownership indicated by label on upper stretcher bar: "Sir Hugh Cholmeley. 1st October 1942." No sale matching this date with Cholmeley's collection has yet been found. There was a sale of paintings from Cholmeley's collection as Easton Hall (Christie, Manson and Woods, LondoColor slide, May 28, 1948), in which the present painting does not appear. Only one other painting with this label has been identified: Follower of Hendrik Jacobsz. Dubbels, Ships on a Calm Sea Near the Coast, sold Sotheby's lot 71. The NCMA's Pastoral Scene by Jan Siberechts (60.17.70), a gift from the Kress Collection, also has a Cholmeley provenance.
[3] Label on upper stretcher bar.
[1] Previous iterations of this painting's provenance have cited the Goutte collection, Paris. It's unclear when this name became attached to the painting's provenance. The evidence cited is the Goutte sale, Bonnefons de Lavaille, Paris, March 29 1841, no. 197, Lot described in catalogue as "paysage avec château à tourelles et une jolie figure", 50 x 60 cm. NCMA painting is 51 x 76 cm. After conservation assessment and treament in 2024, there's no physical indication that the painting was expanded to its current dimensions, or that it ever had just one female figure, as described in the Goutte catalogue.
[2] Ownership indicated by label on upper stretcher bar: "Sir Hugh Cholmeley. 1st October 1942." No sale matching this date with Cholmeley's collection has yet been found. There was a sale of paintings from Cholmeley's collection as Easton Hall (Christie, Manson and Woods, LondoColor slide, May 28, 1948), in which the present painting does not appear. Only one other painting with this label has been identified: Follower of Hendrik Jacobsz. Dubbels, Ships on a Calm Sea Near the Coast, sold Sotheby's lot 71. The NCMA's Pastoral Scene by Jan Siberechts (60.17.70), a gift from the Kress Collection, also has a Cholmeley provenance.
[3] Label on upper stretcher bar.
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