PrintsFrench18th century
The Sparrow's Nest Thief
18th century
Artists
François BoucherArtist
Jean-Antoine WatteauArtist after
Dimensions
plate: 40.8 × 28 cm (16 1/16 × 11 in.)
Provenance
Hugh Lupus Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire, by 1884, by descent, sold [through Christie's, London, July 15, 2015, lot 172]; to private collection, United Kingdom, sold [through C. G. Boerner LLC, New York], to; Harvard Art Museums, 2017
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