Cupid
Old Master Drawings from the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, October 23–December 19, 1955, no cat.
With Albert Henry Stopford, Paris, by September 22, 1932 [1];
Purchased from Stopford by Richard Owen, Paris, September 22–December 1, 1932;
Purchased from Owen, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
NOTES:
[1] See shipping receipt from Richard Owen, via De La Rancheraye et Cie, Paris, to Harold W. Parsons, Kansas City, Missouri, 1932, NAMA archives (copy in NAMA object file). Albert Henry Stopford, Esq. (1860–1939) was a British antiques dealer, who was also friendly with the Romanovs before and during the Russian Revolution (1917–1923). By 1922, Stopford was living in Paris at 31, Rue de Valois. See A List of the Fellows and Honorary, Foreign, and Corresponding Members & Medallists of the Zoological society of London. Corrected to May 31st, 1922 (London: William Clowes, 1922), 130. He is buried in Paris; see “Albert Henry Stopford,” Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178340586/albert-henry-stopford.
Alexandre Ananoff and Daniel Wildenstein, François Boucher (Lausanne: Bibliothèque des Arts, 1976), nos. 203/2, 355/3, and 390/2, pp. 1:319, 2:58, 91–91, (repro.), as Amour voltigeant, Amour tenant des torches or Angelot tenant un tamborin.
Alastair Laing, The Drawings of François Boucher, exh. cat. (New York: American Federation of Arts, 2003), 132, 237 under no. 45n7.
