Landscape with Watermill

François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)

1750s

Medium/TechniqueBlack and white chalk, pastel, and graphite pencil on blue paper

DimensionsSheet: 29.8 × 44.3 cm (11 3/4 × 17 7/16 in.)
Framed: 46.4 x 61 cm (18 1/4 x 24 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Forsyth Wickes—The Forsyth Wickes Collection

Accession number65.2543

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InscriptionsLower right: f. BoucherProvenancePossibly Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully, Paris; sale, Paris 5 March 1770, in lot no. 228; [Fouquier ?]; Georges de Batz and Co., New York; May 21, 1951, sold by Georges de Batz and Co. to Forsyth Wickes (b. 1876 - d. 1964), New York and Newport, RI; 1965, bequest of Forsyth Wickes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 24, 1965)