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

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

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Year: 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
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.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Jean Michel Moreau

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Artist: Jean Michel Moreau
Year: 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
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.)
Watts ID: WW-1780-632625

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