Are They Thinking about the Grape? (Pensent-ils au raisin?)

1. With the pendant Flageolet Player, probably Jean Baptiste Machault d’Arnouville (died 1794), contrôleur général des finances; by descent to Melchior, marquis de Vogüe, one of whose descendants married comte René de Rohan Chabot [proposed by Alistair Laing in connection with the history of the pendant, in a letter to Susan Wise, August 13, 1986 in curatorial file]. Comte René de Rohan Chabot, Paris; sold to Wildenstein, 1959 [telephone conversation of Ay-Wang Hsia with Susan Wise, May 4, 1982]; sold to the Art Institute, 1973.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Probably Paris, Salon, 1747, no. 33bis. as deux pastorales, aussi en forme ovale.
• Stockholm, Nationalmuseum, La Douce France (Det ljuva Frankrike), 1964, no. 16.
• Art Institute of Chicago, François Boucher in North American Collections: 100 Drawings, 1973/1974, not in catalogue.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, no. 9.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, François Boucher 1703-1770, February 17-Mary 4, 1986, no. 53; Detroit Institute of Arts, May 27-August 17, 1986; Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, September 19, 1986-January 5, 1987.
• Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard, Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, 2003/2004, no. 55, traveled to Washington, National Gallery of Art and Berlin, Altes Museum.
• Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Casanova: The Seduction of Europe, August 27, 2018 - December 31, 2017, pp. 149-151, fig. 73; 309 no. 73; Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, February 10 – May 28, 2018; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, July 8 – October 8, 2018 [Boston Only]

• [Abbé Jean Bernard Le Blanc], Lettre sur l’exposition des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, etc. , de l’année 1747…, Paris, 1747; reprint Geneva, 1970, pp. 81-82.
• “Recent Accessions of American and Canadian Museums,” Art Quarterly 36 (1973), p. 429.
• “Art across North America—In the New,” Apollo 99 (1974), p. 474, fig. 8.
• “La Chronique des arts,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 83 (1974), suppl. to no. 1261, p. 128, fig. 411.
• John David Farmer, “A New Painting by François Boucher,”Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 68, 2 (1974), pp. 16-18 ill.
• Alexandre Ananoff, “François Boucher et l’Amérique,” L’Oeil, no. 251 (1976), pp. 18, 21.
• Alexandre Anaoff with Daniel Wildenstein, François Boucher, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, vol. 1, p. 33, under no. 299, p. 34, under no. 301, vol. 2, p. 3, under no. 309, p. 4-5, no. 310, fig. 888, pl. opp. p. 32.
• John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago, New York, 1977, pp. 62-63, ill.
• Pierrette Jean-Richard, L’Oeuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, 1978, pp. 68-69, ill, no. 30.
• Regina Shoolman Slatkin, review of Alexandre Anaoff with Daniel Wildenstein, François Boucher in Burlington Magazine 121 (1979), pp. 119-20.
• Alexandre Anaoff with Daniel Wildenstein, L’opera completa di Boucher, Classici dell’arte 100, Milan, 1980, p. 111, no. 321, ill., pl. 29.
• Denys Sutton in François Boucher (1703-1770), exh. cat., Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1982, p. 261.

Boy with a Carrot

Art Institute of Chicago

Study of a Triton

Art Institute of Chicago

Academic Study of a Reclining Male Nude

Art Institute of Chicago

The Fisherboy

Art Institute of Chicago

Psyche's Entrance into Cupid's Palace [right fragment] from the Story of Psyche

Art Institute of Chicago

Bathing Nymph

Art Institute of Chicago

Study of Valet with Coffee Pot

Art Institute of Chicago

Cupid and Psyche: Design for a Ceiling

Art Institute of Chicago

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