On the mount of the Parisian mount🔯maker Jean-B💮aptiste Glomy (1711-1786) (L.1085);

Baroness Eugène de Rothschild (1885–1946),

from whose collection sold, London, Sotheby's, 27 Apr🍒il 1977, l♔ot 65;

purchased at that sale by Sir Karl Theodore Parker (1895-19💙92), Oxford♛;

sale,🌠 Lon🍬don, Sotheby's, 22 April 1998, lot 128 (as Follower of François Boucher);

with Day and Faber, London;

Dr. Joseph Goldyne, San Francisco;

with Steven Platzman, Addisඣon Associates, San Francis💫co;

sale, New York, Sotheby's, 2ꦇ5 January 2012, lot 22🍬,

where acquired by the present owner.

Boucher's highly finished drawings of children, usually in a pastoral setting, were extremely popular wit🐻h contemporary collectors, including Mme. de Pompadour. Some served as models for Sèvres porcelain figures. At the time of the 2012 sale, the late Alastair Laing confirmed the attribution to Boucher, on the basis of a 💦photograph.