'A Summer Pastoral' depicts the cousins Lisette and Babette with the Little Shepherd who wins his sweetheart’s affection and a crown of flowers by serenading her on the bagpipes. The picture, with P482, originally belonged to the financier Daniel-Charles Trudaine, who hung them in the grand salon on the ground floor of his château at Montigny–Lencoup. In 1818 the château was bought by comte George de Stacpoole. The Bouchers must have been considered part of the integral decoration of the château, as they too passed into Stacpoole’s possession and were later inherited by his son Richard, at whose sale Lord Hertford bought them for the modest sum of 12,400 francs (about £496). The pictures were later admired by Thoré-Bürger who praised their ‘tones varied like a bouquet of colours against the blue-green of the trees and grass’, when they were lent to the boulevard des Italiens exhibition in 1860.