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Title:Perfect Harmony
Artist:Jean Michel Moreau le Jeune (French, Paris 1741–1814 Paris)
Date:1776
Medium:Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over traces of graphite
Dimensions:10 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (26.7 x 21.6 cm.)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, 1974
Accession Number:1974.356.48
Signature: Lower left, pen and brown ink: "J.M. Moreau Lejeune 1776"
(Possibly) Previously owned by Ludwig II of Bavaria (German)sale, Berlin, Lepke, May 1891 (according to Clayton); Baroness Mathilde von Rothschild (French); Eric von Goldschmidt-Rothschild , Golschmidt-Rothschild sale, Berlin, March 23-25, 1931, lot 39, repr.; Honorable Irwin Laughlin; Mrs. Hubert Chanler sale, Sotheby's, London, June 10, 1959, lot 40, repr.; Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc.
Rotterdam. Museum Boymans. "Van Clouet tot Matisse, Tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties," July 31–September 28, 1958.
Paris. Musée de l'Orangerie. "De Clouet à Matisse, dessins français des collections américaines," October–November 1958.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse," February 3–March 15, 1959.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings Recently Acquired, 1972–75," October 1, 1975–January 4, 1976.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections," February 3–April 25, 1999.
Bean and Turcic 1986.196
Edward Clayton French Engravings of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Joseph Widener, Lynnewood Hall. 4 Volumes, London, 1923, cat. no. under no. 20, p. 529.
Campbell Dodgson "Jean Michel Moreau (Moreau Le Jeune)." Old Master Drawings. vol. 6, London, September 1927, cat. no. 847, p. 24.
Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900
January - March, 1932. Royal Academy of Arts, Oxford and London, 1933, cat. no. 714, p. 153.
Regina Shoolman, Charles E. Slatkin Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America. Oxford University Press, New York, 1950, fig. no. pl. 56, p. 100, ill.
French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse A Special Loan Exhibition, February 3–March 15, 1959. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1959, cat. no. 68, fig. no. pl. 86, ill.
Jacob Bean European Drawings Recently Acquired, 1972–1975. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975, cat. no. 53.
Pierrette Jean-Richard Graveurs français de la seconde moitié du XVIII siècle: Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Ex. cat. Paris, 1985, cat. no. under 76, pp. 67-68.
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th-18th Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, cat. no. 196, p. 179.
Perrin Stein, Mary Tavener Holmes Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1999, cat. no. 77, p. 178, ill.
Louis-Antoine Prat Le Dessin Français au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 2017, 457.
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