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  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
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Overview

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Inscription

signed lower center in pen and brown ink: AP [in ligature] Baudoüin

Marks and Labels

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Provenance

Mlle. Testard (sale, Paris, 22 January 1776, no. 30); M. Prault (sale, Paris, 27 November 1780, no. 41); Groult collection, Paris, by 1893; George Blumenthal [1859-1941], New York; Baroness Wrangell; (sale, London, Sotheby's, 26 November 1970, No. 93); acquired by (William Schab Gallery, New York); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, by 1973; gift to NGA, 1983.

Exhibition History

1769
Salon of 1769. Paris, 1769, no. 68.
1973
Woodner Collection II: Old Master Drawings from the XV to the XVIII Century. William H. Schab Gallery, New York and tour. 1973-1974, no. 106.
1976
Old Master Drawings from American Collections. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1976, no. 157 (Ebria Feinblatt).
1983
The Rococo Age, French Masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1983, no. 79 (Eric Zafran).
1984
Diderot et l'Art de Boucher à David: Les Salons: 1759-1781. Hôtel de la Monnaie, Paris, 1984-1985, no. 34.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 92 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).
2003
The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Altes Museum, Berlin, 2003-2004, no. 60, repro. (Washington only).
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 (no cat.).
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 178-179, 286, no. 78 (color).

Bibliography

1769
[Cochin, C.N.]. Réponse de M. Jérôme rapeur de tabac a M. Raphaël, peintre de l'Académie de S. Luc..., Paris, 1769: 28-29.
1769
[de Jossan, Daudet]. Lettres sur les peintures, gravures et sculptures qui ont été exposées cette année au Louvre: par M. Raphaël, Peintre, de l'Académie de s. Luc..., Paris, 1769: 35-36.
1769
"Exposition des Peintures...," L'Avant-Coureur, 39 (25 September 1769): 610.
1769
Fréron, E.-C. "Exposition des Peintures, Sculptures & Gravûres de Messieurs de l'Académie Royale," L'Année littéraire, 5 (4 September 1769): 301.
1769
Lettre sur l'exposition des ouvrages de Peinture & de Sculpture au Sallon du Louvre 1769, Rome, 1769: 29.
1769
Sentimens sur les tableaux exposés au Salon, Paris, 1769: 14.
1769
"Sallon du Louvre," Affiches, annonces, et avis divers, 38 (20 September 1769): 151.
1780
Petit de Bachaumont, L. "Salon de 1769," in Mémoires secrets, London, 1780: 13, 57-58.
1796
Chevalier des Boulmiers. "Exposition des Peintures, Sculptures & Gravures de MM. de l'Académie royale, dans le salon du Louvre 1769," Mercure de France, (October 1769), I: 188-189.
1875
Bocher, Emmanuel.Les gravures françaises du XVIIIe siècle; ou, Catalogue raisonné des estampes, eaux-fortes, pièces en couleur, au bistre et au lavis, de 1700 à 1800. Paris, 1875: 36-37, 53, 55.
1893
Bourcard, Gustave. Dessins, Gouaches, estampes et tableaux du dix-huitième siècle. Paris, 1893, 27.
1923
Clayton, Edward. French Engravings of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Joseph Widener, Lynnewood Hall. 4 vols. London, 1923, I:35-37.
1957
Diderot, Denis. Salons. Texte établi et présenté par Jean Seznec et Jean Adhéma . 4 vols. Oxford, 1957-1967, 4: 95.
1957
Grimm, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von, in Denis Diderot, Salons. Oxford, 1957-1967, 4: 95.
1967
Seznec, Jean, and Jean Adhémar, eds. Diderot Salons. 4 vols. Oxford, 1957-1967, 4: 31, fig. 17 (repro. of the print).
1971
"Louis XV sur une chaise de Louis XVI," Connaissance des arts, 235 (September 1971): 48.
1972
Master Prints and Drawings 15th to 20th Centuries, William H. Schab Gallery, New York, n.d. (Catalogue 52 [1972]): 74-75, no. 67 (reproduced in color).
1980
Bukdahl, E.-M. Diderot Critique d'Art-I-Théorie et pratique dans les Salons de Diderot, Copenhagen, 1980: 219, 285, 385.
1982
Bukdahl, E.-M. Diderot Critique d'Art-II-Diderot, les Salonniers et les esthéticiens de son temps, Copenhagen, 1982: 276-77.
1982
Georgel, P. "L'Académie 'particulière,'" in exh. cat. La peinture dans la peinture Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon: 197, repro. 196, fig, 346 (print).
1990
Sheriff, Mary D. Fragonard. Art and Eroticism. Chicago and London, 1990: 185-191, fig. 40.
1999
Fort, Bernadette, ed. Les Salons des "Méemoire secrets" 1767-1787. Paris, 1999: 59-61, fig. 9.
2004
Oeuvres sur papier, Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris, 2004, n.p. (under Baudouin, Deux jeunes amoureux, as a related work).
2005
Fahy, Everett, ed. The Wrightsman Pictures. New Haven, 2005: 196, 198, under cat. 56, fig. 1.

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