
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002367Waterfall
Inscriptions
Signed: "LM 1788"
Provenance
Marquis Le Franc de Pompignan, Château de Hordesse; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 20, 1927, lot 3, to Marius Paulme (died 1928), Paris [published auction results]. Wildenstein and Company, by March 1934-at least 1955 [London 1934; New York 1955]. Mrs. Joseph Regenstein, Chicago, by 1962 [Santa Barbara 1962]; given to the Art Institute, 1964.
Exhibition history
London, Wildenstein & Co., "French Drawings from Clouet to Ingres," March 1934, cat. 46. Minneapolis Institute of Art, "Watercolors by the Masters: Dürer to Cézanne," May 1-June 15, 1952, cat. 25. New York, Wildenstein & Co., "Timeless Master Drawings," November-December 1955, cat. 86. New York, Wildenstein & Co., "For the Connoisseur," September 24-October 31, 1956, cat. 36. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Calif., "Painted Papers: Watercolors from Dürer to the Present," March 15-April 15, 1962, cat. 62. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 108-09, cat. 54 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim. 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, p. 69, cat. 63 (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. 22 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 50-51, cat. 20 (ill.). New York, Wildenstein & Co., "Romance and Reality," October 17-November 25, 1978. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Recent Acquisitions to the Regenstein Collection," February 20-April 28, 1995.
Publications
The Art Quarterly, 27 (1964), p. 499. Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), pp. 44-45, no. 2C8. Martha Tedeschi and Kristi Dahm, Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, exh. cat. (Yale University Press and the Art Institute of Chicago, 2008), pp. 76 (ill.), 77.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Louis Gabriel Moreau / French, 1740-1806
- Date
- 1788
- Medium
- Gouache, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, edge mounted on board
- Dimensions
- 33.5 × 45 cm (13 1/4 × 17 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- gouache
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Joseph Regenstein
- Accession no.
- 1964.245
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