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拍品专文
Sujet pittoresque par excellence, les moulins à eau de Charenton sont très en vogue tout au long du XVIIIe siècle chez nombreux artistes français tels Nicolas Vleughels, Nicolas Lancret et François Boucher. L’image de ces moulins, très utilisée par Boucher, se retrouve non seulement dans ses dessins mais également au cœur de ses peintures, estampes et tapisseries. Ce charmant paysage dépeint le Moulin des Carrières entouré d’arbres et de verdure surplombant un étang où deux personnages semblent s’afférer sur une barque. Ce sujet populaire chez Boucher se retrouvera également sur l’un de ses cartons préparatoires pour la tapisserie intitulée La Fontaine de l’Amour, l’une des six pièces composant la tenture des Nobles pastorales réalisée par la Manufacture de Beauvais en 1755, aujourd’hui conservée à la Huntington Library, Los Angeles (inv. L.2005.93.1), et dont le carton se trouve au J. Paul Getty Museum (inv. 71.PA.37). Cette composition sera reprise par l'artiste en 1758 dans une toile aujourd'hui conservée au Toledo Museum of Art (inv. 54.18 ; A. Laing dans François Boucher, 1703-1770, cat. exp., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, et autres villes, 1986-1987, no. 69, ill.). Ajoutons à ce corpus une autre représentation du moulin traditionnellement identifié comme Quiquengrogne dont la structure diffère légèrement de celle beaucoup plus animée du carton du Getty, sur un dessin conservé à The Morgan Library and Museum de New York. (inv. 1996.57).
Nous remercions Alastair Laing d’avoir confirmé l’attribution après examen de visu et pour son aide apportée à la rédaction de cette notice.
The watermills at Charenton, with their highly picturesque qualities, proved to be a popular subject for 18th century French artists like Nicolas Vleughels, Nicolas Lancret and, of course, Boucher. The mills feature in numerous of Boucher’s prints, paintings, drawings and tapestries. This sensitively observed landscape shows the Moulin des Carrières surrounded by trees and it is probably datable to the 1740s according to Alastair Laing. It might have been used in the composition of the tapestry La Fontaine d’Amour, now in the Huntington Library in Los Angeles (inv. L.2005.93.1) which was part of a series of six tapestries called Noble Pastorales made by the Beauvais manufactory in 1755, and for which a cartoon is in the J. Paul Getty Museum (inv. 71.PA.37; A. Laing in François Boucher
1703-1770, exhib. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and elsewhere, 1986-1987, under no. 69, fig. 182). The more famous mill at Charenton, the Quiquengrogne, features in a painting by Boucher from 1758, which is close in spirit and composition to the present drawing, and is now in the Toledo Museum of Art (in. 54.18; ibid., no. 69, ill.). A drawing by Boucher which shows a mill,
traditionally identified as Quiquengrogne but which differs in composition from the Getty cartoon, is at The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (inv. 1996.57; ibid., fig. 180).
We are grateful to Alastair Laing for confirming the attribution to Boucher after studying the original and for his assistance in cataloguing this drawing.
Nous remercions Alastair Laing d’avoir confirmé l’attribution après examen de visu et pour son aide apportée à la rédaction de cette notice.
The watermills at Charenton, with their highly picturesque qualities, proved to be a popular subject for 18th century French artists like Nicolas Vleughels, Nicolas Lancret and, of course, Boucher. The mills feature in numerous of Boucher’s prints, paintings, drawings and tapestries. This sensitively observed landscape shows the Moulin des Carrières surrounded by trees and it is probably datable to the 1740s according to Alastair Laing. It might have been used in the composition of the tapestry La Fontaine d’Amour, now in the Huntington Library in Los Angeles (inv. L.2005.93.1) which was part of a series of six tapestries called Noble Pastorales made by the Beauvais manufactory in 1755, and for which a cartoon is in the J. Paul Getty Museum (inv. 71.PA.37; A. Laing in François Boucher
1703-1770, exhib. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and elsewhere, 1986-1987, under no. 69, fig. 182). The more famous mill at Charenton, the Quiquengrogne, features in a painting by Boucher from 1758, which is close in spirit and composition to the present drawing, and is now in the Toledo Museum of Art (in. 54.18; ibid., no. 69, ill.). A drawing by Boucher which shows a mill,
traditionally identified as Quiquengrogne but which differs in composition from the Getty cartoon, is at The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (inv. 1996.57; ibid., fig. 180).
We are grateful to Alastair Laing for confirming the attribution to Boucher after studying the original and for his assistance in cataloguing this drawing.