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Materials:
black chalk
Size Notes:
15¹?? x 10¹?? in. (38.5 x 26.5 cm)
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Provenance:
JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris) Orlando subdues a brigand with a firebrand (Orlando furioso, XIII, 34-36) black chalk, brown and gray wash, watermark letters in a circle 151?8 x 101?2 in. (38.5 x 26.5 cm) Probably the artist’s family. Hippolyte Walferdin (1795-1880), Paris; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12-16 April 1880, lot 228. Louis Roederer (1845-1880), Reims; by descent to his nephew Léon Olry-Roederer (1870-1932), Reims and Paris. with Thos. Agnew and Sons, London 1922; acquired en blocby Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia, until 1952; acquired from his estate by John Fleming (1910-1987), New York and Larchmont; sold in 1955 to an American private collector. with Thos. Agnew and Sons, London, probably sold around 2005-2006 to Nina R. and Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. E. Mongan, P. Hofer and J. Seznec, Fragonard. Drawings for Ariosto, London, 1945, p. 74, pl. 95. M.-A. Dupuy-Vachey, Fragonard et le Roland Furieux, Paris, 2003, no. 126, ill.