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Materials:
pen and brown ink (lower right)red chalk, brush and brown ink, touches of pen and brown ink, pen and brown ink framing line
Size Notes:
24 x 36.5 cm.
Description:
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Exhibited:
?Paris, cole des Beaux-Arts, Catalogue des dessins de lcole moderne exposs lcole Nationale des Beaux-Arts au profit de la caisse de secours de lassociation [Taylor], 1884, no. 276. Paris, Jacques Seligmann & Fils, Exposition de dessins de Fragonard, 1931, no. 19.?New York, Seligmann, Rey & Co., [French and Italian drawings from the collection of Albert Meyer], 1936 (see Frankfurter, op. cit.).
Literature:
R. Portalis, Honor Fragonard. Sa vie et son uvre, Paris, 1889, p. 314. L. Vaillat in Luvre de J.-B.-S. Chardin et de J.-H. Fragonard, Paris, [1908], p. XX, under no. 161.G. Grappe, La Vie et luvre de J.-H. Fragonard, Paris, 1929, pl. XVIII. S. de Ricci, Collection Albert Meyer, Paris, 1935, no. 24, ill.A.M. Frankfurter, Drawings by French masters: The Albert Meyer Collection, The Art News, XXXIV, no. 19, 8 February 1936, p. 12.H. Algoud, Fragonard, Monaco, 1941, pl. 81. G. Grappe, La Vie de Jean-Honor Fragonard, Paris, 1942, pl. XIV. J. Villain, Fragonard, Paris, 1953, pl. 23. L. Reau, Fragonard. Sa vie et son uvre, Brussels, 1956, p. 196. A. Ananoff, Luvre dessine de Jean-Honore Fragonard, IV, Paris, 1970, no. 2003, 2004, fig. 550.P. Rosenberg et I. Compin, Quatre nouveaux Fragonard au Louvre (II), Revue du Louvre et des muses de France, XXIV, 1974, nos. 4-5, pp. 272, 275-276, fig. 13.I. Compin and P. Rosenberg, Tableaux de Fragonard et meubles de Cressent au Muse du Louvre, exhib. cat., Paris, Muse du Louvre, 1974, under no. 22 J.-P. Cuzin, Jean-Honor Fragonard. Vie et uvre. Catalogue complet des peintures, Fribourg, 1987, p. 179. P. Rosenberg, Fragonard, exhib. cat., Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987-1988, p. 481, fig. 3, under no. 236. M. Schieder, in The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard. Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, exhib. cat., Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, and Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemldegalerie, 2003-2004, p. 290, under nos. 83-84, ill. G. Faroult, Jean Honore Fragonard. Le Verrou, Paris, 2007, p. 30, fig. 18 [second edition Paris, 2015]. G. Faroult in Fragonard amoureux, galant et libertin, exhib. cat., Paris, Musee du Luxembourg, 2015-2016, pp. 208, 210, under nos. 71-72. M. A. Dupuy-Vachey, Every Possible Combination. Between Inspiration and Finish in Fragonards uvre, in Fragonard. Drawing Triumphant. Works from New York Collections, exhib. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016-2017, p. 25, fig. 19. G. Faroult, LAmour peintre. LImagerie rotique en France au XVIIIe sicle, Paris, 2020, p. 411-412, 414, fig. 240.
Provenance:
Possibly anonymous collection; Paris, 2-5 May 1781, part of lot 128. Possibly Morel collection; Paris, 19-22 April (i.e. 3 May) 1786, lot 377 (sold to Le Brun). Possibly Jean-Baptiste-Laurent Boyer de Fonscolombe (1716-1788), Aix-en-Provence; Paris, 18-21 January 1790, part of lot 190. Possibly Eugne Tondu; Htel Drouot, Paris, 10-13 May 1865, lot 225. Franois-Hippolyte Walferdin (1795-1880), Paris; Htel Drouot, Paris, 12-16 April 1880, lot 212, where acquired by H.H.A. Josse; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 28-29 May 1894, lot 12 (sold to Wertheimer). Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919), Paris (L. 421); Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-15 March 1905, lot 63 (sold to Fral). Jules Fral (1874-1944), Paris. Maurice-douard Kann (1839-1906), Paris. Albert Meyer, Paris; by descent to his widow (?); Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 15 June 1938, lot 8; where acquired by Lon Cotnareanu (1891-1970) and Yvonne Le Baron Coty Cotnareanu (1880-1966), Paris. Anonymous sale; Sothebys, New York, 16 January 1985, lot 149. with Hobhouse, London. Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above in 1986.