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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
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
Object 3 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. 248
1944"The Almanac: French Paintings Given to the National Gallery." The Magazine Antiques. vol. XLVI, no. 5 (November 1944): 288
1944Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 79, repro. no. 76
1945Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 169, repro.
1948Wildenstein and Company. French XVIII Century Paintings. New York, 1948: 4
1952Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 124, color repro.
1956Einstein, Lewis. "Looking at French Eighteenth Century Pictures in Washington." Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 6th ser., vol. 67, no. 1048-1049 (May-June 1956): 238-239, repro. 247
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 368, repro.
1960Wildenstein, Georges. The Paintings of Fragonard. New York, 1960: no. 443
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. 468, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 130, repro.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 331, fig. 293.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 338, no. 456, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 157, repro.
1987Cuzin, Jean-Pierre. "Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Vie et oeuvre." Fribourg, 1987: no. 340, repro.

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