Cupid and Psyche: Design for a Ceiling

1. Jean Dubois, Paris; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 21-22, 1927, lot 4. Marius Paulme (died 1928), Paris [Lugt 1910]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 13, 1929, lot 19, to Hincioux for 35,000 fr. [according to annotated sales catalogue]. Private Collection; sold, Nicolas Rauch, Geneva, June 13-15, 1960, lot 44. Sold by Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1960.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Charles Slatkin Gallery, "François Boucher," cat. 55.
• New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 49, as "Venus and Amor."
• Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "François Boucher in North American Collections: 100 Drawings," December 23, 1973-March 17, 1974, cat. 55; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, April 4-May 12, 1974.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 76-77, cat. 37 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
• 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, p. 55, cat. 44 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking 1400-1850", March 15 - June 1, 2025, p. 85, 88, 211, fig. 69 (ill.), cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, Edina Adam, et. al.

• Alexandre Ananoff, Les Dessins de François Boucher 1703-1770, I (Paris, 1966), no. 868 (ill.).
• Victor Carlson, "Three Drawings by François Boucher," Master Drawings, IV (1966), pp. 161-162 (ill.).
• Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 1B2.
• Beverly Schreiber Jacoby, "Boucher's Late Brown Chalk Composition Drawings," Master Drawings, XXX (Autumn 1992), p. 268 (ill.).

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

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Boy with a Carrot

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Study of a Triton

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Academic Study of a Reclining Male Nude

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The Fisherboy

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

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Bathing Nymph

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Study of Valet with Coffee Pot

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