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

Prints and Drawings

1780

Jean Michel Moreau
French, 1741–1814

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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Artist: Jean Michel Moreau
Title: The Arrival of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to the Champs-Élysées
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 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
Inscriptions: Signed and dated, recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "J. M. moreau Le Jeune 1780"
Dimensions: Primary support: 23.2 × 33 cm (9 3/16 × 13 in.); Secondary support: 32.5 × 42.9 cm (12 13/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.988
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Denis Diderot, Salons, texte établi et présenté par Jean Seznec professeur à l’Université d’Oxford, volume IV, 1769, 1771, 1775, 1781 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967), p. 383.
Rudolf Schrey, Stift und Feder 3 (October 1929), p. 23.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 84-85, cat. 55 (ill.).

Paris, Le Salon de Louvre, 1781.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 84-85, cat. 55 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

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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