The Bedroom (Le Coucher or Ma Chemise brule)
Artist, French, 1732 - 1806
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Artwork overview
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Medium
brush and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 24 x 36.9 cm (9 7/16 x 14 1/2 in.)
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Accession
1963.15.10
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Catalogue Raisonné
Ananoff 1961, no. 87
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Unidentified collector (blue star, Lugt undescribed). [1] Adrien Fauchier-Magnan, London; (sale, Sotheby’s, London, 4 December 1935, no. 13); Richard Owen; Samuel H. Kress 1936; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art
[1] According to 1987 correspondence between the National Gallery of Art Department of Graphic Arts and M. Pierre Rosenberg, Departement des Peintures Musée du Louvre, the barely visible blue star on the lower left edge of the drawing could be even a stray crayon mark; hence it seemed doubtful that it would be a collector’s mark. See NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1985
Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1985-1986.
2015
Fragonard amoreux: galant et libertin, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2015-2016.
Bibliography
1961
Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806). 4 vols. Paris, 1961-1970.
1977
Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: p. 337: dK451, fig. 300.
1978
Williams 1978, 25.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 677, no. 1083, color repro.
1991
Wadley, Nicholas. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. London, 1991: fig. 26, p. 31.
2000
Rosenberg, Pierre. From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David & Ingres. Princeton, 2000: 51, fig. 63.
Inscriptions
in unknown hand, lower right: Frago.
Watermarks
Fleur-de-lis
Wikidata ID
Q64581216