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Talent Has No Age for Boucher

Result EUR494,000
Published on , by Anne Doridou-Heim
Auction on 23 June 2020 - 14:30 (CEST) - Salle 2 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

Good things come in twos! After brilliantly knocking down Jusepe de Ribera’s a philosopher: The Happy Geometer on June 16, the Daguerre auction house sold another unprecedented work, this time a Boucher.

François Boucher (1703-1770), Joueur de vielle “Hurdy-Gurdy Player”, oil on canvas,... Talent Has No Age for Boucher
François Boucher (1703-1770), Joueur de vielle [“Hurdy-Gurdy Player”], oil on canvas, 39.5 x 32 cm.
Result: €494,000
This unusual spring seems ripe for early works by Old Masters. This time it is a painting by François Boucher (1703–1770) found in a cupboard where it had been languishing without any…
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