Courtyard of a farm.

Drawing, black chalk, 27,8 x 41,8 cm, laid paper with French watermark (grapes), unsigned (foxing throughout).

Beautiful sheet with delapidated farmhouse and a peasant girl at the centre. The style and motifs in the drawing come very close to the more realist landscape drawings by François Boucher (1703-1770). The specific rendering of the wooden barrels and the bent ladder in the foreground are elements which appear in other drawings by Boucher and his workshop, such as the drawing of a "Cottage" in the Metropolitan Museum of New York (inv. 11.66.14), "Landscape with two children playing before a mill" in the collection of the British Museum (inv. 1997,0607.1), or "The old farm house", in the Albertina (inv. 12192).