Study of Valet with Coffee Pot

1. Louis-Pierre-Martin Norblin de la Gourdaine (died 1830), Paris [according to Slatkin invoice]; by descent to Madame la Baronne de Connantre (or Connaitre?) [according to Slatkin]; by descent to Baronne de Ruble [according to Slatkin]; by descent to Madame de Witte [according to Slatkin]; by descent to Marquise de Bryas [according to Slatkin]. M. Cailleux, Paris [according to Chicago 1974]. Sold by Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute, 1959.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 47.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 64-65, cat. 31 (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. 36; 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. 52-53, cat. 40 (ill.).
• Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 7 (ill.).
• Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 24-25, cat. 7 (ill.).
• New York, Wildenstein and Company, "François Boucher," November 11-December 19, 1980, cat. 46.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 64-65, cat. 31 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, August 1988-June 1990.
• New York, The Frick Collection, "Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700-1750," October 19, 1999-January 9, 2000, cat. 52.
• New York, The Frick Collection, "The Drawings of François Boucher," October 8-December 14, 2003, p. 125, cat. 41 (ill. p. 32), cat. by Alastair Laing; traveled to the Kimbell Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Tex., January 25-April 18, 2004.

• E. and L. de Goncourt, L'Art du Dix-Huitième Siècle, I (Paris, 1880), p. 199.
• André Michel, François Boucher (Paris, 1906), no. 1279.
• Art Quarterly, XXIII (Spring 1960), p. 110 (ill).
• Galerie Cailleux, François Boucher (Paris, 1964).
• Jean Vallery-Radot, French Drawings from the 15th to the early 19th Century (New York, 1964), no. 54 (ill.).
• Victor Carlson, "Three Drawings by François Boucher," Master Drawings, IV (1966), p. 157-163 (ill.).
• Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), no. 1A8.

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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Cupid and Psyche: Design for a Ceiling

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