Provenance
1Pierre-Louis-Paul Randon de Boisset ca. 1765–[d.]1776 Possibly received from the artist as a gift, in memory of a common journey to Holland ca. 1763/64, François Boucher, (exh. cat.) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1986–87, p. 42; Catalogue des Tableaux & Desseins précieux des Maîtres célèbres des trois Ecoles […] du Cabinet de feu M. Randon de Boisset […], (sale cat.) Paris (27 February–25 March 1777), no. 198.
2Jean-Louis Millon Dainval 1777 Nephew of the above, acquired at the above sale for 888 livres, Ananoff no. 616.
3Clifford Duits London • by 1954/55 European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, (exh. cat.) Royal Academy of Arts, London 1954–55, no. 458.
4Marlborough Fine Art Ltd. London AStEGB, Inventory Card Boucher, Deux paysannes.
5Emil Bührle Zurich • 27 June 1955 until [d.] 28 November 1956 Acquired from the above for £ 5.200 (= CHF 62.400), AStEGB, Price list, handwritten by Emil Bührle and containing the names of 5 artists, including Boucher; the Price list was drawn up for a group of mostly Old Master paintings whose purchase Bührle was negotiating with Frank Lloyd from Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London; that part of the purchase came to £ 66.000 (= CHF 792.000) and included Courbet’s Portrait of a Man, Goya’s Procession, and Ochtervelt’s Backgammon Players (all now in the Emil Bührle Collection, Inv. 24, 143, 155); AStEGB, Entry Book II, 27 June 1955, lists part of these paintings, along with a group of 4 drawings by Picasso which Bührle acquired around the same time.
6Given by the heirs of Emil Bührle to the Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection Zurich • 1960 Inv. 122.
AStEGB = Archive of the Foundation
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
