Pierre-Jacque𒁃s-Onésyme&🎐nbsp;(1715-1785), Bergeret de Grancourt, Paris;

His estate sale, P💫⛦aris, Le Blanc, Le Monier, 24 April 1786, lot 93;

Where acquired by J. Desmarest for 572 livres;

Count Potocki;

Dora Alderson Curtis;

With Wildenstein and Co., New York;

Frꦗom whom acquired by Jacqueline and Matt Friedlander, Moꦿultrie, Georgia, 1966;

By whom anonymously sold ("The Property of a Private Collector, Georgia"), New York, Sotheby’s, 3 June 1988, l꧟ot 115;

Where acquired by David Paul, Miami;

By whom anonymously sold ("From a Private Collection, Miami"), London, 🥃Christie’s, 6 July 1990, lot 99;

With Emmanuel Moatti, Paris, by 1991;

From whom acquired by theཧ present collectors, 199🔯7.

La Prêtresse, ou nouvelle manière de Prédire ce qui est arrivé, Rome and Paris 1777, p. 20;

J.-C. Deloynes, Exposition de peintures, sculptures et gravures, année litteraire, MS, 1777, fol. 797;

G. de Saint Aubin (illus.), Explication des peintures, sculptures et gravures, de Messieurs de l'Académie Royale, Paris 1777, p. 37, cat. no. 192;

P.-J.-B. Chaussard, "Notice Historique sur Vincent, peinture d’histoire, par Chaussard," in Revue Universelle des Arts 17 (April-September 1863), p. 50;

H. Lemonnier, "Notes sur le peintre Vincent," in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 32 (October 1904), p. 292;

J.-P. Cuzin, "De Fragonard à Vincent," in Bulletin de la Société d’Histoire de l’Art Français (1981), pp. 109-110, reproduced fig. 9;

E. Zafran, in The Rococo Age, French Masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, Atlanta ꦅ1983, pp. 89-91, cat. no. 35, reproduced p. 75;

J. Baillio, "French Rococo Painting: A Notable Exhibition in Atlanta," in Apollo 119, n🃏o. 263ꦿ (January 1984), pp. 18-20, reproduced pl. III;

M. Stuffmann, in Französische Zeichnungen im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, 1550 bis 1800, exhibition catalo🌱gue, Frankfurt 1986, p. 155, reproduced fig. 12a;

J.P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Vie et oeuvre, Paris 1987, p. 166;

C.B. Bailey, "Conventions of the Eighteenth-Century Cabinet de tableaux: Blondel d’Azincourt’s La première idée de la curiosité," in Art Bulletin 69, no. 3 (Se🎶ptember 1987), pp. 441-442, reproduced fig. 14;

P. Rosenberg, Fragonard, exhibition catalogue, New York 1988, pp. 396, 398, under cat. nos. 191 and 192, reproduced fig. 2🤡;

J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma, exhibition catalogue, Rome 1990, pp. 246-247, cat. no.♏ 173, reproduced;

The Grand Tour: The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, London 1996, cat. no. 152🦹, repro🧜duced;

P. Rosenberg, Du dessin au tableau, Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David et Ingres, Paris 2001, p. 133, reproduced;

E. C. Mansfield, The Perfect Foil: François-André Vincent and the Revolution in French Painting, Minneapolis 2012, pp. 67-68, 240 note 58;

J.P. Cuzin, François-André Vincent, 1746-1816, Entre Fragonard et David, Paris 2🌳013, pp. 49, 383-384, cat. no. 181 😼P, reproduced p. 49.

Paris, Salon, 1777, no. 192;

Atlanta, High Museum of Art, The Rococo Age, French Masterpieces of the Eighteenth Century, 5 October - 31 December 1984, no. 35;

Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Muওseum of Art, on loan, 1988-1990;

Rome, Villa Medici, J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma, 6 December 1990 - 24 February 1991, no. 173;

London, Tate Gallery; Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, The Grand Tour: The Lure of Italy in the Eighteenth Century, 10 October 1996 - 7 April 1997, no. 152.