FRANCOIS BOUCHER (PARIS, 1703-1770) TWO PUTTI Sanguine, shading and white chalk highlights Annotated "Boucher" lower left and "JCR" lower right bottom right Sanguine, shading and white chalk highlights, annoted "Boucher" lower left and "JCR" lower right 34,50 x 24,50 CM - 13,6 x 9,6 IN Our drawing can be compared with the Love holding the Crown of Erato on the door top of the Cabinet des Médailles of the Bibliothèque nationale, dated 1746 (see Ananoff, François Boucher, tome I ,Paris-Lausanne, éditons Bibliothèque des Arts, 1976, no 248, repr. fg. 746). In 2012, Professor Alastair Laing gave a positive opinion, based on a photograph (see notice in the Piasa sale catalogue, 12 November 2012).