Emile Dacier, Albert Vuaflart, and Jacques Herold. Jean de Jullienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIIIe siècle. 4 vols. Paris: La Société pour l'Étude de la Gravure Française, 1921-1929, 3: under no. 169 (mentioning the two Paris sales in the nineteenth century).
Louis Réau and Louis Dimier. Les peintres français du XVIIIème siècle. 2 vols. Paris: G. Van Oest, 1928-1930, 1:42, no. 133.
Hélène Adhémar and René Huyghe. Watteau: Sa vie, son œuvre. Paris: Tisné, 1950, no. 66 ("lost since 1846").
Jean Cailleux. “L’art du dix-huitième siècle: A Rediscovered Painting by Watteau ‘La partie quarrée’." Burlington Magazine 104, no. 709, suppl. 16 (April 1962): iv, pl. 1.
Albert Châtelet and Jacques Thuillier. French Painting from Le Nain to Fragonard. Geneva: Skira, 1964, p. 262.
Ettore Camesasca and John Sunderland. The Complete Paintings of Watteau. New York: Abrams, 1968, no. 82, repr.
Giovanni Macchia and E.C. Montagni. L’opera completa di Watteau. Milan: Rizzoli, 1968, no. 82, repr.
Ettore Camesasca and Pierre Rosenberg. Tout l’œuvre peint de Watteau. Paris: Flammarion, 1970, no. 82, repr.
Jean Ferré. Watteau. 4 vols. Madrid: Editions Artistiques Athéna, 1972, A.11.
Yvonne Boerlin-Brodbeck. Antoine Watteau und das Theater. Basel: Universitätsbibliothek, 1973, p. 194.
Robert Raines. "Watteaus and 'Watteaus' in England before 1760." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 89 (February 1977): p. 58, 63, no. 77 and note 44.
Pierrette Jean-Richard. L'œuvre gravé de François Boucher dans la collection Edmond de Rothschild au Musée du Louvre. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1978, mentioned under no. 148.
Thomas P. Lee. "Recently Acquired French Paintings: Reflections on the Past." Apollo 111, no. 217 (March 1980): p. 218, fig. 8 on 215.
John D. Morse. Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists. New York: Abbeville Press, 1980, p. 297, repr. on 299.
Marianne Roland Michel. Tout Watteau: La peinture. Paris: Flammarion, 1982, no. 114, repr.
Donald Posner. Antoine Watteau. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1984, pp. 9-10, 20, 57, 69, 243, repr. in color.
Marianne Roland Michel. Watteau: Un artiste au XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Flammarion, 1984; London; Trefoil Books, 1984, p. 35, 69, 115, 177, 211, 212, 215, pl. 10, fig. 175.
Marianne Roland Michel. "Watteau." Paris Match (26 October 1984): p. 108, repr. in color on 108-109.
Selby Whittingham. "Watteau's 'l'Isle Enchantée': From the French Régence to the English Regency." Pantheon 42, no. 4 (October-December 1984): p. 342.
William R. Wilson. The Los Angeles Times Book of California Museums. New York: Abrams, 1985, p. 73, pl. 62 (color).
Sanford Schwartz. "The Art World: A Stranger in Paris.” The New Yorker (September 1985): p. 108.
Marianne Roland Michel. "Watteau: After the Exhibitions." Burlington Magazine 127, no. 993 (December 1985): p. 916.
"Antoine Watteau." The Great Artists: Their Lives, Works and Inspiration - A Marshall Cavendish Weekly Collection 3, no. 61 (London, 1986): repr. in color on 1934.
Pierre Rosenberg. "Répétitions et répliques dans l'œuvre de Watteau,” Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) le peintre, son temps et sa légende (Paris: Champion-Slatkine, 1987): p. 10, fig. 10 on 106, pl. 30.
Brian Allen. Francis Hayman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987, fig. 44 on 102.
Pierre Rosenberg and Marion C. Stewart. French Paintings 1500-1825: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. San Francisco: The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1987, pp. 324-328, repr.