Frick Collection acquire Boucher Work on Paper
September 10 2025
Picture: Frick Collection
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Frick Collection in New York have announced their acquisition of François Boucher's Reclining Shepherdess and a related engraving after it by Gilles Demarteau.
According to their post on LinkedIn:
Parisian patrons collected Boucher's drawings during his life, and Boucher may have made sheets like this as works of art in their own right. The artist collaborated with printmakers to disseminate his compositions to a wider clientele. This composition was translated into a print by Gilles Demarteau using the innovative technique of red chalk engraving. To the Goncourt brothers—famed art critics and collectors of the nineteenth century—“Reclining Shepherdess” (“La Bergère au coeur”) was one of the most beautiful studies made by Boucher.
