Sheep in the Field ("Rien de trop I")

sold to Louis Olry-Roederer, Reims

Sold by the artist to M. de Montenault, Paris, about 1751. J. J. de Bure, Paris, by 1828

probably sold by Baron Isidore Taylor to Morgand and Fatout, Paris, 1876

sold, Paris, December 1-18, 1853, de Bure sale, lot 344, to Count Adolphe-Narcisse Thibaudeau (died 1856), Paris

sold to Emile Pereire, Paris

sold to Felix Solar, Paris, 1856 [Portalis 1877]

Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Illustrations for La Fontaine’s Fable 80, ‘Nothing in Excess’ (‘Rien de trop’), 1732,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 42-43, no. 14.

sold by the heirs of Louis Olry-Roederer to the Rosenbach Company, New York, 1923

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Acquisitions in the Regenstein Collection 1974-1989," February 2-May 8, 1990.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.

Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Jean-Baptiste Oudry," 1982-1983.

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), no. 2C12.

sold to Raphael Esmerian, New York, about 1946. Sold, Palais Galliera, Paris, June 6, 1973, Esmerian sale, lot 46, to an unknown art dealer. Sold by Claus Virch to the Art Institute, 1976.

New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, "Fables from Aesop to Thurber," January 14-March 11, 1965.