Jean-Honoré Fragonard (artist) French, 1732 - 1806 A Game of Horse and Rider, 1767/1773 oil on canvas Overall: 115 x 87.5 cm (45 1/4 x 34 7/16 in.) framed: 145.1 x 116.8 x 12.1 cm (57 1/8 x 46 x 4 3/4 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1946.7.5

From the Tour: 18th-Century France — Boucher and Fragonard
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Provenance

Possibly William Williams Hope, Rushton Hall, Northamptonshire; possibly by gift to Mme. Jenny Colon. Emile and Isaac Pereire, Paris; (their sale, Paris, 6 March 1872, no. 61); purchased by comte Pillet-Will, Paris, until at least 1910.[1] (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris, New York, and London), by 1932;[2] sold to Calouste Gulbenkian; purchased by (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Paris, New York, and London);[3] sold 1942 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1946 to NGA.[1]

[1] The painting was lent by Pillet Will to exhibitions in Paris in 1885, and Berlin in 1910.

[2] The painting was lent by Wildenstein to a 1932 exhibition in London.

[3] Information about the sale to, and purchase from, Gulbenkian is per a letter dated 21 January 1952 from Georges Wildenstein, in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

• Colon, Jenny
• Gulbenkian, Calouste Sarkis
• Hope, William Williams
• Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
• Pereire, Emile and Isaac
• Pillet-Will, comte Pillet, Frédéric-Alexis-Louis
• Sale, Paris
• Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

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