The Paternal Blessing, or The Departure of Basile

1. General Brunet-Denon (Baron D. Vivant-Denon) [Lugt 779]; sold, Hôtel des Ventes Mobilières, Paris, February 2-15, 1846, lot 186. Lucien Guiraud (died 1954), Paris [according to Joachim 1979]. Sold by Dr. Otto Wertheimer, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1955.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Salon, 1769.
• Minneapolis, Minn., The University of Minnesota, University Gallery, "The Eighteenth Century: One Hundred Drawings by One Hundred Artists," 1961, cat. 35.
• New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 56, as "The Return of the Prodigal Son."
• 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. 62-63, cat. 54 (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. 15 (ill.).
• Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 56-57, cat. 24 (ill.).
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Gods and (Super)heroes: Drawing in an Age of Revolution", November 16, 2017 - April 1, 2018.

• Jean Martin, Oeuvre de J.-B. Greuze (Paris, 1908), no. 256.
• The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1955-1956), p. 21 (ill.).
• Edgar Munhall, "Greuze and Protestant Spirit," The Art Quarterly, 27 (1964), pp. 3-23 (ill.).
• Jean Seznec and Jean Adhemar, Salons, 4 (Oxford, 1967), p. 108, no. 46.
• R. Fernandez, "Greuze's Paternal Blessing," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 5 (1970), pp. 91-95 (ill.).
• Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 1E11.
• Emma Barker, Greuze and the Painting of Sentiment (Cambridge, 2001).

Broken Eggs

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Charles Claude de Flahaut (1730–1809), Comte d'Angiviller

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Aegina Visited by Jupiter

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Study of a Woman’s Head

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Jean Jacques Caffiéri (1725–1792)

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Head of a Young Boy

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Head of a Young Woman

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Madame Jean-Baptiste Nicolet (Anne Antoinette Desmoulins, 1743–1817)

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