Kneeling Figure Wearing a Cope

Signature: In red chalk at lower left: "Jo. Vien"

Marking: Stamped in black ink at lower left, collector's mark of Jean de Vichet (Lugt 1549).

Jean de Vichet (French)Lugt Supplement 1549. (no sale listed); Vendor: Jacques Petithory

Bean and Turcic 1986.309, Gaehtgens 1988.75

Linda Boyer Gillies, Colta Ives French Drawings and Prints of the Eighteenth Century. Ex. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1972, cat. no. 45.

Pierre Rosenberg French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections. Ex. cat., Art Gallery of Ontario, 2 Sept. - 15 Oct., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, 3 Nov. - 17 Dec. 1972, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 12 Jan. - 11 Mar. 1973. Toronto, 1972, cat. no. under no. 144, p. 220.

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. 309, p. 274, ill.

Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Jacques Lugand Joseph-Marie Vien, Peintre du Roi (1716-1809). Paris, 1988, cat. no. 75, pp. 241-2, ill.

Peter Dreyer "Maratti Drawings Inscribed by Joseph-Marie Vien" Master Drawings. vol. 31, no. 4, New York, 1993, fig. no. 1, pp. 432-435, ill.

Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Jean-Francois Méjanès, William W. Robinson Mastery and Elegance, Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz. Exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums, and other cities. edited by Alvin L. Clark Jr., Cambridge, MA, 1999, cat. no. under no.74, pp. 260; 376.

Louis-Antoine Prat Le Dessin Français au XVIIIe siècle. Paris, 2017, 544.