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image of The Visit to the Nursery
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
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

Exhibition History

1883
L'Art au XVIIIe siècle Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1883-1884, no. 53.
1907
Exposition Chardin et Fragonard, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1907, no. 90.
1921
Exposition d'oeuvres de J.-H. Fragonard, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, 1921, no. 69.
1939
The Great Tradition of French Painting, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1939, no. 22.
1940
Masterpieces of Art. European & American Paintings 1500-1900, New York World's Fair, 1940, no. 201.
1946
Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 772.
1997
Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in 18th-century France, Hood Museum of Aart, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1997-1998, no. 25, repro.

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