Signature: Pen and brown ink, lower right: Deshays, f.

Jean-Baptiste Deshays (French, Colleville 1729–1765 Paris), sale, expert Pierre Remy, March 26, 1765, lot 12. sold for 102 livres (according to André Bancel, letter 2/11/2002); Pierre Antoine Baudouin (French, Paris 1723–1769 Paris)(according to Alastair Laing), possibly in his sale, Paris, Feb. 5, 1770, lot 149.; Randon de Boisset sale, Paris, Feb. 27, 1777, no. 372 (according to André Bancel who says it was sold for 250 livres to Desmarets); Desmarets (French), (according to André Bancel, letter 11/2/2002); Vassal de Saint-Hubert possibly in his sale, Paris, March 29-April 13, 1779, lot 150, "Phrinée devant l'Aréopage"; Hôtel Drouot, Paris , June 26, 1950, lot 52 (as "Tribunal jugeant une jeune femme, 47.3 x 60.3 cm."); Vendor: Clifford Duits

Bean and Turcic 1986.97

Docteur H. Mireur Dictionnaire des ventes d'art. 2, Paris, 1911, p. 463.

Charles Blanc Le Trésor de la curiosité. 1, Paris, 1857, p. 367.

Jacob Bean "The Drawings Collection." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 20, . New York, 1962, p. 170, ill.

Linda Boyer Gillies, Colta Ives French Drawings and Prints of the Eighteenth Century. New York, 1972, cat. no. 16.

Marc Sandoz J.-B. Deshays. 1977, fig. no. pl. IV, pp. 101-103, ill.

Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turcic 15th-18th Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1986, cat. no. 97, p. 94, ill.

Alastair Laing "New York French eighteenth-century drawings" Burlington Magazine. 141, no. 1155, London, June 1999, fig. no. 79, pp. 379, 380, ill.

Perrin Stein, Mary Tavener Holmes Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections. New York, 1999, cat. no. 53, pp. 120-122, ill.