Literature
A. Ananoff, 'François Boucher et l'Amérique', L'Oeil, June 1976, p. 23.
A. Ananoff, François Boucher, Lausanne and Paris, 1976, I, p. 10, item 57; p. 258, no. 131; fig. 468.
E.A. Standen, 'Fêtes Italiennes: Beauvais Tapestries after Boucher in the Metropolitan Museum of Art', Metropolitan Museum Journal, XII, 1977, pp. 116-117, note 22; p. 120, fig. 21.
R.S. Slatkin, 'The Fêtes Italiennes: Their Place in Boucher's Oeuvre', Metropolitan Museum Journal, XII, 1977, p. 137.
A. Ananoff, L'Opera completa di Boucher, Milan, 1980, p. 95, no. 132a, illustrated
E.A. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1985, II, p. 508, cited under no. 78; p. 528, note 14.
A. Laing ed., François Boucher, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and elsewhere, New York, 1986, pp. 193-4, cited under no. 37.
E. Goodman, ''Les Jeux innocents': French Rococo Birding and Fishing Scenes', Simiolus, XXIII, no. 4, 1995, p. 267, note 53, fig. 28.
Exhibited
New York, Wildenstein, François Boucher, 12 November-19 December 1980, pp. 35-6, no. 7, fig. 7.
Tokyo, Metropolitan Art Museum, and elsewhere, François Boucher (catalogue by D. Sutton), 24 April-22 August 1982, no. 15, pp. 47 and 160-1, illustrated.
Tokyo, Wildenstein, François Boucher, 19 April-31 May 1991, no. 5, pl. 5 and fig. 5.