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Description of Boucher's "Les Graces et l'Amour," circa 1915
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BOUCHER, Born 1703 Died 1770 "Lee Graces et l'Amour,
Canvas 72 x 56-1/4 Oval, Signed and dated 1738. No. d'iventarr 633. Exhibited in the Salon of 1738 No. 104.
Painted for the Prince de Soubise and hung in the Princess's bed-room. The Prince de Soubise was born in 1715 and died in 1787, his full name was Charles de Rohan, Price de Soubise, Peer and Marshall of France, the grand-son of Princesses de Soubise. Boucher exhibited in the Salons of 1738 and 1739 the decorat-ions and pictures which he executed for the Prince. The Palace was built by Delamaire and the architects, Boffrand and Brunetti did the interior. The hotel de Soubise is in the Marais quarter, and is today ec-cupied by the National Archives. This work passes into the Parizeeu Collection which was dispersed in 1789, Collection of the Duke de Morny, No. 91, where is was purchased by Lord Hartford. It hung for a number of years at the Pavilion de Bagatelle, and later in Richard Wallace's house, rue Laffitte. The lat-ter left his paintings to Sir John Murry Scott, from whom Lady Sackville inherited them. Mentioned in Pierre de Nolhae's work on Boucher, pages 32 and 33 and page 115. Mentioned in Michel's Boucher, page 164.