The Arrival of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the Champs-Élysées

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The Arrival of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the Champs-Élysées

Jean Michel MoreauLinkedCulture matchlcp-6f387b2b2172

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
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
186318

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Jean-Michel Moreau, the Younger, was Designer of Royal Entertainments (and soon to be Royal Designer and Engraver) when this drawing was among those shown at the Salon du Louvre of 1781, where it was extolled by the encyclopedist and critic Denis Diderot. As engraved by C. F. Macret in 1782, the subject of the scene was identified as a group of eminent philosophers and ancient authors—Montaigne, Voltaire, Homer, Plato, and Plutarch—welcoming into heaven Jean-Jacques Rousseau, author of The Social Contract.

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Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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.

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