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The Arrival of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the Champs-Élysées
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "J. M. moreau Le Jeune 1780"
Exhibition history
Paris, Le Salon de Louvre, 1781. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 84-85, cat. 55 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Denis Diderot, Salons, texte établi et présenté par Jean Seznec professeur à l'Université d'Oxford, volume IV, 1769, 1771, 1775, 1781 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), p. 383. Rudolf Schrey, Stift und Feder 3 (October 1929), p. 23. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 84-85, cat. 55 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Michel Moreau / French, 1741–1814
- Date
- 1780
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and brown wash and pale orange wash, on cream laid paper, prepared with a white gouache ground, laid down on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 23.2 × 33 cm (9 3/16 × 13 in.); Secondary support: 32.5 × 42.9 cm (12 13/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.988
Provenance
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt [stamp (not in Lugt; see Lugt 1257 c-e) verso, lower center, in purple]; probably sold by that museum c. 1933. Sold, Etude Tajan, Paris, Oct. 20, 2000, lot 156, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
More by Jean Michel Moreau in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00005927
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