M. Florisoone, Le Dix-huitième Siècle, Paris, 1948, pl. 83.
H. Peyre, Logic and Passion, Art News, February 1948, (illustrated pp. 34 and 50.
Catalogue of the exhibition, European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1954, under no. 178.
European Masters of the Eighteenth Century, Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, 1954-1955, under no. 178.
Catalogue of the exhibition, Le Siècle du Rococo, Munich, Residenz, under no. 77, p. 59.
Catalogue of the exhibition, Il settecento a Roma, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, 1959, under no. 277.
J. Valler-Radot, 'Le Dessin preéparatoire de Greuze pour 'L'Oiseleur accordant sa guitare'', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, October 1959, pp. 217, 219, note 9.
W. Sauerländer, 'Pathosfiguren im oeuvre des Jean-Baptiste Greuze', in Walter Friedlaender zum 90. Geburstag, Berlin, 1965, p. 184, note 11.
E. Munhall, catalogue of the exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Greuze 1725-1805, Hartford, 1976, p. 47, under no. 12
Catalogue of the exhibition, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Musée de Dijon, 1977, under no. 12.
Catalogue of the exhibition, Europäische Malerei des Barock aus dem Nationalmuseum in Warschau, Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, 1988-90, pp. 142, under no. 40; 144, note 15.