François Boucher
Monument to Mignardcirca 1743

Not on view

Oil painting of a baroque funerary monument in sepia tones, featuring a bearded seated figure writing on a scroll, a standing figure behind, putti, and a winged allegorical figure above, set within a columned architectural interior

Artist or Maker: François Boucher
France, Paris, 1703-1770
Title: Monument to Mignard
Place Made: France
Date Made: circa 1743
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 28 1/2 × 22 5/8 in. (72.39 × 57.47 cm) Frame: 33 × 28 × 1 in. (83.82 × 71.12 × 2.54 cm)
Credit Line: The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: M.2000.179.11
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: Pierre-Hippolyte Lemoyne (1748–1828)(1) (estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Boullion [Duchesne Ainé], 19–22 May 1828, lot 95, "Divers Maîtres: Tombeau de Mignard, peint en grisaille, d’après la sculpture de J-B Lemoyne, telle qu’elle était dans l’église de Jacobins de la rue St. Honoré. Hauteur 27 pouces, Largeur 21 pouces," sold for 6 frs., 10 sous).(2) Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1973, sold 2000 to; LACMA.
Footnotes
(1) Pierre-Hippolyte Lemoyne, an architect, was the son of Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, the sculptor of the monument. The drawing was, thus, most likely passed directly from the father to the son.
(2) It is intriguing that the catalogue does not identify Boucher as the artist. The catalogue did include two paintings en camaïeu by Boucher: "67. Triomphe de Vénus, esquisse peinte en camaïeu. Cette toile a été contre-collée, larg, 33 p., haut, 18 p.; 68. Vénus venant prier Vulcàn de forger des armes pour Énée; esquisse peinte en camaïeu. Larg. 16 p., haut 14 p."
Selected Bibliography: Marandel, J. Patrice. French oil sketches from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 17th century - 19th century. Los Angeles: The Ahmanson Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.
Jeromack, Paul. "High Taste, Low Budget." Art & Auction 24, no.2 (2002): 84-93.
Marandel, J. Patrice. French Oil Sketches from an English Collection, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries 1973-1975. Houston, TX: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1975.
Ananoff, Alexandre, and Daniel Wildenstein. François Boucher. 2 vols. Lausanne and Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1976
Ananoff, Alexander. and Daniel Wildenstein. L'Opera completa di François Boucher. 1980.
Wintermute, Alan P. “Inventory of Paintings by the Ten ‘First Painters to the King’ in Public Collections in the United States.” In Colin Bailey, ed., The First Painters of the King: French Royal Taste from Louis XIV to the Revolution (exh. cat.). New York: Stair Sainty Matthiesen, 1985.
Three masters of French Rococo : Boucher, Fragonard, Lancret. Tokyo, Japan : Tenrankai Katarogu Iinkai, 1990
Walch, Peter, , Joanna R. Barnes, J. Patrice Marandel. French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition. New York : American Federation of Arts in association with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
L'Opera Completa di Boucher. Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1980.
Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.

François Boucher
Monument to Mignardcirca 1743

Not on view

Artist or Maker: François Boucher
France, Paris, 1703-1770
Title: Monument to Mignard
Place Made: France
Date Made: circa 1743
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Canvas: 28 1/2 × 22 5/8 in. (72.39 × 57.47 cm) Frame: 33 × 28 × 1 in. (83.82 × 71.12 × 2.54 cm)
Credit Line: The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number: M.2000.179.11
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance: Pierre-Hippolyte Lemoyne (1748–1828)(1) (estate sale, Paris, Hôtel Boullion [Duchesne Ainé], 19–22 May 1828, lot 95, "Divers Maîtres: Tombeau de Mignard, peint en grisaille, d’après la sculpture de J-B Lemoyne, telle qu’elle était dans l’église de Jacobins de la rue St. Honoré. Hauteur 27 pouces, Largeur 21 pouces," sold for 6 frs., 10 sous).(2) Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1973, sold 2000 to; LACMA.
Footnotes
(1) Pierre-Hippolyte Lemoyne, an architect, was the son of Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, the sculptor of the monument. The drawing was, thus, most likely passed directly from the father to the son.
(2) It is intriguing that the catalogue does not identify Boucher as the artist. The catalogue did include two paintings en camaïeu by Boucher: "67. Triomphe de Vénus, esquisse peinte en camaïeu. Cette toile a été contre-collée, larg, 33 p., haut, 18 p.; 68. Vénus venant prier Vulcàn de forger des armes pour Énée; esquisse peinte en camaïeu. Larg. 16 p., haut 14 p."
Selected Bibliography: Marandel, J. Patrice. French oil sketches from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 17th century - 19th century. Los Angeles: The Ahmanson Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.
Jeromack, Paul. "High Taste, Low Budget." Art & Auction 24, no.2 (2002): 84-93.
Marandel, J. Patrice. French Oil Sketches from an English Collection, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries 1973-1975. Houston, TX: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1975.
Ananoff, Alexandre, and Daniel Wildenstein. François Boucher. 2 vols. Lausanne and Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1976
Ananoff, Alexander. and Daniel Wildenstein. L'Opera completa di François Boucher. 1980.
Wintermute, Alan P. “Inventory of Paintings by the Ten ‘First Painters to the King’ in Public Collections in the United States.” In Colin Bailey, ed., The First Painters of the King: French Royal Taste from Louis XIV to the Revolution (exh. cat.). New York: Stair Sainty Matthiesen, 1985.
Three masters of French Rococo : Boucher, Fragonard, Lancret. Tokyo, Japan : Tenrankai Katarogu Iinkai, 1990
Walch, Peter, , Joanna R. Barnes, J. Patrice Marandel. French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition. New York : American Federation of Arts in association with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
L'Opera Completa di Boucher. Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1980.
Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.