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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (artist) French, 1732 - 1806 The Swing, probably c. 1765 oil on canvas overall: 215.9 x 185.5 cm (85 x 73 1/16 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1961.9.17 |
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Provenance
Casimir Perrin, Marquis de Cypierre [d. 1844], Paris; (his sale, Paris, 10 March 1845, no. 52 or 53). Possibly duc Montesquiou-Fezensac, Paris; possibly to Haro;[1] by whom probably sold by 1889 to Camille Groult [1837-1908], Paris; probably his son Jean Groult [1868-1951], in Groult collection until at least 1927.[2] (Wildenstein, New York); sold 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.
[1]Étienne-Francois Haro [1827-1897] and his son Henri Haro [1855-1911] were Parisian dealers as well as artists.[2]Catalogued in Groult collection by Roger Portalis, Honoré Fragonard, Paris, 1889 and by Pierre Nolhac, "Les colin-maillard de Fragonard," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, March 1927, p. 150. The painting was not included in the 21 March 1952 sale of the Groult collection.
Associated Names
- Cypierre, Casimir Perrin, Marquis de
- Groult, Camille
- Groult, Jean
- Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
- Sale, Paris
- Wildenstein & Co., Inc.
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