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EDMÉ BOUCHARDON (CHAUMONT
1699-1672 PARIS)
A boar on a sacrifical altar, flanked by trees
red chalk, watermark cartouche with cross and
letters ‘[...] JC [heart] I’ (?)
6Ω x 7æ in. (16.5 x 19.7 cm), oval
$3,000-4,000

PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 30 January
1998, lot 244.

This characteristic sheet by Bouchardon is
probably a design for a medallion inspired by an
antique gem. Bouchardon provided numerous
drawings after antique gems for the prints in
Pierre-Jean Mariette’s Traité des pierres gravées,
published in 1750.

We are grateful to Edouard Kopp for confirming
the attribution on the basis of a photograph.

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CHARLES-NICOLAS COCHIN (PARIS
1715-1790)
A performance at a theater
black chalk, brush and gray ink, watercolor,
pen and black ink framing lines, watermark
‘B*C*RICHARD’ in a cartouche with a crescent
below
13º x 18º in. (33.7 x 46.4 cm)
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE:
Félix Doisteau; Paris, 9-11 June 1909, lot 125 (as
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin).
Georges Dormeuil (1856-1939), Paris (L. 1146a);
by descent.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 3 July 2013,
lot 56 (as attributed to Moreau le Jeune).
with The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.

EXHIBITED:
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Exposition des Saint-
Aubin, 1925, no. 40 (as Gabriel de Saint-Aubin).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, French Art, 1200-
1900, 1932, no. 796 (as Gabriel de Saint-Aubin).
LITERATURE:
Société de reproduction des dessins de maîtres,
Paris, 1911, pl. 26 (text by É. Dacier).
É. Dacier, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. Peintre,
dessinateur et graveur (1724-1780), Paris and
Brussels, 1931, II, no. 495, ill. (as probably by
Cochin).
É. Launay, Les Frères Goncourt collectionneurs de
dessins, Paris, 1991, p. 260, under no. 54.
Émile Dacier, who first publised this drawing
as a particularly important work by Gabriel de
Saint-Aubin (op. cit., 1911), later conceded it must
be the work of Cochin (op. cit., 1931, II, p. 83).
He notes a drawing by Cochin representing the
same, probably imaginary theater was formerly in
the collection of the Goncourt brothers (Launay,
op. cit., no. 54, ill.).
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