The Departure by Coach

New York, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, “French Master Drawings, Renaissance to Modern. A Loan Exhibition,” February 10 – March 7, 1959, cat. 61 (ill). [As Moreau] New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 64, as by Jean-Michel Moreau, "The Young Godparents." The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 110-11, cat. 55 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections," November 19, 1978-January 21, 1979, pp. 142-43, cat. 57 (ill.); traveled to Cambridge, Mass., the Fogg Art Museum, February 16-April 1, 1979; and New York, The Frick Collection, April 20-June 3, 1979. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986. Paris, Musée Luxembourg, "Fragonard Amoureax", September 16, 2015, - January 24, 2016, pp. 118, 121 (ill.), cat. 29.

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