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image of The Visit to the Nursery
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (artist)
French, 1732 - 1806
The Visit to the Nursery, before 1784
oil on canvas
Overall: 73 x 92.1 cm (28 3/4 x 36 1/4 in.) framed: 97.8 x 116.8 cm (38 1/2 x 46 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1946.7.7
From the Tour: 18th-Century France — Boucher and Fragonard
Object 7 of 8
1944"Kress Makes Important Donation of French Painting to the Nation." Art Digest. vol. 18, no. 19 (1 August 1944): 5
1944"One of the Greatest Donations of XVIIIth Century French Painting Ever Received by a Museum - The Kress Collection." The Illustrated London News 115, no. 2992 (26 August 1944):249, repro.
1944Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 122, color repro.
1944Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 79, repro. p. 65
1945Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 170, repro.
1948Wildenstein and Company. French XVIII Century Paintings. New York, 1948: 4
1956Einstein, Lewis. "Looking at French Eighteenth Century Pictures in Washington." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 6th ser., vol. 67, no. 1048-1049 (May-June 1956): 244, repro. 237
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 370, repro.
1960Wildenstein, Georges. The Paintings of Fragonard. New York, 1960: no. 459
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 51
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 43, repro.
1971Watson, Francis. "Fragonard." Art News Annual 37 (1971):86
1972Mandel, Gabriele. L'Opera completa di Fragonard. Milan, 1972: no. 482, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 132, repro.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 333-335, fig. 292.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 341, no. 460, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 158, repro.

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