HUGUES TARAVAL. 1729-1785

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Provenance: until 1894 The A. Golitsyn Collection, Mos-Oil on canvas. 100 X 82 cm. Inv. No 737 cow; 1894—1924 The D. Shchukin Collection, Moscow; In the early 1890s the picture was identified by since 1924 The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow S. Scheikevich as Boucher's work and as such entered Bibliography: Кат. ГМИИ 1948, p. 76; Кат. ГМИИ The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. The authorship of 1957, p. 174. Кат. ГМИИ 1961, p. 177; S. Scheike-Taraval was suggested by A. Chegodayev on stylistic vitch, "Correspondence de Russie", Gazette des Beaux-evidence. Arts, 1894, August, p. 172

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