The Dreamer (La Rêveuse)

Paris, Société de protection des alsaciens et lorrains demeurés français, Ouvrages de peinture exposés au profit de la colonisation de l’Algérie par les Alsaciens-Lorrains au Palais de la Présidence ou Corps législatif..., 1874, no. 526. Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, L’Art du XVIIIe siècle, 1883-84, no. 145. New York, Wildenstein, Fashion in Headdress 1450 - 1943, April 27 - May 27, 1943, no. 36. Paris, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, De Watteau a Prud’hon, May 11 - 31, 1956, no. 95. Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art, Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effect, April 25 to June 14, 1959, no. 35. Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, The Age of Louis XV, French Painting 1710-1774, 1975, no. 120, pl. 17; traveled to Chicago and Ottawa. Chicago, Art Institute, Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, no. 2. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Watteau 1684-1721, 1984, no. P26; traveled to Paris and Berlin.

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