Gardens of an Italian Villa (Villa Medici?), 1773/1774

Not on View

Medium

brush and brown ink over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 14.3 x 17.5 cm (5 5/8 x 6 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Ananoff 1961, no. 1446

Accession Number

1963.15.7

Artists / Makers

Jean Honoré Fragonard (artist) French, 1732 - 1806

Image Use

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Inscription

in later hand, across center verso in graphite: fragonard / vente[octaval?]; across bottom verso in graphite: (4 lines in French)

Provenance

M. Marquiset; (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28-29 April 1890, no. 90); M. Cournerie; (sale, Paris, 8-9 December 1891, no. 72); Lucien Guiraud, Paris; Richard Owen, Paris; purchased 1939 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; gift 1963 to NGA.

Associated Names

Cournerie
Drouot, Hôtel
Guiraud, Lucien
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Marquiset, M.
Owen, Richard

Exhibition History

1978: Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections. National Gallery of Art, Washington and tour, 1978, no. 35.

1990: Gardens on Paper, Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. NGA, 1990, no. 87, repro.

1991: J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma. Villa Medici, Rome, 1990-1991, no. 163.

Bibliography

n.d.: Thomas Le Claire Kunsthandel. Master Drawings 1500-1900. Hamburg, n.d.: under no. 23.

1961: Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806). 4 vols. Paris, 1961-1970.

1977: Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 336, dK548, fig. 299.

1987: Rosenberg, Pierre. Fragonard. Exh. Cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987-1988. Paris, 1987: 363, fig. 3.