Boy with a Carrot

1. Antoine Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville; sold, Paris, 1766, Dezallier d'Argenville sale, lot 72. Randon de Boisset (died 1776); sold, Paris, Feb. 27, 1777, de Boisset sale, lot 201. Bruun-Neergard, Denmark; sold, Aug. 30, 1814, Bruun-Neergard sale, lot 45. Private collection, Cher-et-Loire [according to M. Adler]. Sold, Palais Galleria, Paris, Dec. 7, 1970, lot 1. Sold by Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1971.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 62-63, cat. 30 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
• Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "François Boucher in North American Collectons: 100 Drawings," December 23, 1973-March 17, 1974, cat. 32; also traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 4-May 12, 1974.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, pp. 38 and 52, cat. 39, pl. II.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 92-93, cat. 38 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Museum of Art, 1986.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.
• New York, The Frick Collection, "The Drawings of François Boucher," October 8-December 14, 2003, cat. 22 (ill. p. 32), cat. by Alastair Laing; Fort Worth, Tex., the Kimbell Museum of Art, January 25-April 18, 2004.

• Pierre Remy, Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux... de feu Monsieur Dezallier d'Argenville (Paris, 1766), no. 72.
• E. and L. de Goncourt, L'Art du Dix-Huitième Siècle, I (Paris, 1880), p. 201.
• André Michel, François Boucher (Paris, 1906), no. 2395.
• Art News, 69 (December 1970), p. 53. (ill.).
• The Art Quartery, 34 (1971), p. 380. (ill.).
• Antiques, 101 (March 1972), p. 474 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1970-71), p. 12 (ill).
• Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 1A7.
• Museum Studies, 12 (1986), p. 47 (ill.).
• Beverly Schreiber Jacoby “Francois Boucher’s Stylistic Development as a Draftsman: the Evolution of his Autonomous Drawings”, in: Drawings Defined, Walter Strauss and Tracie Felker (eds.), with a preface and commentary by Konrad Oberhuber (New York, 1987), pp. 262-263, fig. 5 (ill.)
• Francois Boucher: his circle and influence, Catalogue of an exhibition held Sept. 30-Nov. 25, 1987, at Stair Sainty Matthiesen, New York City, with Introduction by Guy S. Sainty and Alan P. Wintermute (New York, 1987), p. 12, Fig. 5 (ill.)
• James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 206 (ill.).

The Toilette of Venus

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Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Angels

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Washerwomen

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Shepherd's Idyll

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Allegory of Lyric Poetry

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Dispatch of the Messenger

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Allegory of Autumn

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jupiter, in the Guise of Diana, and Callisto

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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