Virgil Reading the "Aeneid" to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Neo-Classicism: Style and Motif, 1964, cat. 117, as François Xavier Fabre. The Denver Art Museum, Great Stories in Art, February 13–March 27, 1966, no cat.Oshkosh, Wisconsin, The Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Empire Profile, 1968, no cat., as François Xavier Fabre. Kansas City, Missouri, The Nelson-Atkins Museum, The Taste of Napoleon, 1969, cat. 24 (in The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum Bulletin, 4, 10 [1969]), as François Xavier Fabre. The Art Institute of Chicago, Selected Works of Eighteenth-Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, 1976, cat. 25, as anonymous. New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Consulat–Empire–Restauration: Art in Early XIX Century France, 1982, p. 99, as French School. The Art Institute of Chicago, Canova and France, 1985, no cat.The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300–1900,1986, cat. 26.

J[ohn] M[axon], “Some Recent Acquisitions,” The Art Institute Quarterly 57, 4 (1963-64), n. p., ill. Hervé Oursel in Le Chevelier Wicar: Peintre, dessinateur, et collectionneur lillois, exh. cat., Musée de Beaux Arts, Lille, 1984, p. 63, under cat. 63. Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings From 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 175-180, ill. Maria Teresa Caracciolo and Pierre Rosenberg, Da Lille a Roma: Jean–Baptiste Wicar e l’Itala: disegni dell’Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia e del Museo di Lille, exh. cat. Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, 2002, pp. 187–8, under no. 88. Maria Teresa Caracciolo, Museo dell’Accademia di Belle Arte di Perugia. Disegni di Jean-Baptiste Wicar 1 ([Perugia], 2003), pp. 68–71, fig. 22.