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拍品 159
ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE DU XVIIIe SIÈCLE, SUIVEUR DE FRANÇOIS BOUCHER

L'Odalisque

成交價 EUR 35,280
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拍品終止拍賣: 2025年6月12日
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ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE DU XVIIIe SIÈCLE, SUIVEUR DE FRANÇOIS BOUCHER

L'Odalisque

成交價 EUR 35,280
拍品終止拍賣: 2025年6月12日
成交價 EUR 35,280
拍品終止拍賣: 2025年6月12日
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ÉCOLE FRANÇAISE DU XVIIIe SIÈCLE, SUIVEUR DE FRANÇOIS BOUCHER
L'Odalisque
huile sur toile
59,3 x 70,4 cm (2313 x 2734 in.)
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FRENCH SCHOOL 18th CENTURY, FOLLOWER OF FRANÇOIS BOUCHER, THE ODALISQUE, OIL ON CANVAS

L'Odalisque brune by Boucher (1703-1770), painted in the 1740s (Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. RF 2140), embodies the fantasy of a carefree, libertine society, as well as the luxury of a softly padded interior, that has come to define the modern concept of 18th-century France. Yet the intimacy depicted in these paintings was not as open as later generations claimed. L'Odalisque brune in the Louvre remained a secret and was never exhibited at the Salon during the artist's lifetime.

The scene probably takes its bold iconography from a popular work, the Sopha, written by Crébillon (1707-1777) and first published clandestinely in 1740. In this moral tale, Amanzeï, the victim of a spell, is transformed into a sofa and subjected to the erotic antics of the various lovers who frolic on it. At the end of the story, the sofa is transported to the bedroom of the young Zeïnis, described as having luxurious ornaments and perfume burner, just as in Boucher's painting. The deliberately provocative story finishes with an erotic scene between the young Amanzéï - still in the form of a sofa - and Zeïnis.

Although the genesis of this work remains a mystery, various versions appeared during the eighteenth century. An engraving of the composition published in 1765, the year Boucher became First Painter to the King, was circulated under the title Le Réveil (fig. 1). The intention was possibly malicious, intended to discredit the painter by revealing his most brazen compositions.

Diderot (1713-1784) also commented on Boucher's work, which he appears to have known from a painting rather than the print, making the unfounded suggestion that it was a representation of the painter's wife. It is possible that the philosopher had seen a version made for the collector Le Riche de La Popelinière (1692-1762) that was sold at public auction in 1763 (possibly the version now in the Louvre). Another version of this composition is described in the posthumous sale catalogue of the Marquis de Marigny in 1782 (18 March-6 April 1782, lot 23). The Musée de Reims also has a very fine version dated 1743, stolen during the war, this version will hopefully one day be restituted to its rightful owners (inv. M.N.R. 61). Finally, Wildenstein lists several other versions that may in fact be the same as those listed above (see A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Genève, 1976, I, pp. 380-381).

The present version, very close to that in the Louvre, would have been part of the confidential diffusion of this licentious image in the 18th century. The artist must have known one of Boucher's early versions, as this example is not after the engraving, which is in the opposite direction and has some minor changes in the woman's head that aren't seen in the present painting.
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