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The Arrival of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the Champs-Élysées
Jean Michel Moreau · 1780
Provenance
Ownership history
- Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt [stamp (not in Lugt; see Lugt 1257 c-e) verso, lower center, in purple]; probably sold by that museum c. 1933. Sold, Etude Tajan, Paris, Oct. 20, 2000, lot 156, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Le Salon de Louvre, 1781.
- Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 84-85, cat. 55 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Literature
Published references
- Denis Diderot, Salons, texte établi et présenté par Jean Seznec professeur à l'Université d'Oxford, volume IV, 1769, 1771, 1775, 1781 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), p. 383.
- Rudolf Schrey, Stift und Feder 3 (October 1929), p. 23.
- Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 84-85, cat. 55 (ill.).
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