The enjoyable lesson
(L'Agréable Leçon)
1748
- Artist/s name
- François BOUCHER
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- 92.5 x 78.6 cm
- Accession Number
- E1-1982
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1982
- Gallery Location
- 17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
Provenance
Exhibited Salon, Paris, 1748, no. 19 (as two of four paintings); exhibited Salon, Paris, 1750, no. 24 (again as two of four paintings); possibly collection of M. Perinet, Paris; anonymous sale, Bonnefons, Paris, 1–2 February, 1839, no. 76 as La Leçon de flûte; collection of Dr Benoist until 1857; Benoist sale (conducted by M. Levillain) 30 March 1857, no. 4 as L’Agréable leçon; anonymous sale, 17 February 1868, no. 6; collection of the Earl and Countess (Hannah Primrose, nee Rothschild) of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, recorded 1884; with Knoedler Gallery (dealer), New York, by 1956; purchased from Knoedler Gallery by Rosenberg & Stiebel (dealer), New York, 1956; purchased from Rosenberg & Stiebel by Durand-Matthiesen (dealer), Geneva, 1956; Ortiz-Patiño Collection; by descent to Georges Ortiz-Patiño, Switzerland; with David Carritt Pty. Ltd. (dealer), 1982; from which purchased for the Felton Bequest, 1982.
