Panel. Pastoral scene with reading shepherdess.
Relined canvas 190 x 429 cm.
Söderby estate, Haninge, Södermanland, Sweden.
Gösta Selling, "Säterier och gamla gårdar i Stockholmstrakten", 1977, ill. at p. 209. (Söderby, Haninge).
Alexandre Ananoff, "Boucher", 1976, volume II, compare engravings from the serie "Les confidences de l'amour" p. 214 catalogue no 551-1, 551-2, 551-3, 551-4.
The motif with the reading shepherdess in center of the panel Pasch borrowed from the artist François Bouchers works called "Les Confidences de l'amour" from 1761. A series of engravings were published, engraved by S.C. Miger, Thiers and Demarteau.