The Bedroom (Le Coucher or Ma Chemise brule)

Not on View

Medium

brush and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 24 x 36.9 cm (9 7/16 x 14 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Ananoff 1961, no. 87

Accession Number

1963.15.10

Artists / Makers

Jean Honoré Fragonard (artist) French, 1732 - 1806

Image Use

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Inscription

in unknown hand, lower right: Frago.

Provenance

Unidentified collector (blue star, Lugt undescribed). [1] Adrien Fauchier-Magnan, London; (sale, Sotheby’s, London, 4 December 1935, no. 13); Richard Owen; Samuel H. Kress 1936; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art

[1] According to 1987 correspondence between the National Gallery of Art Department of Graphic Arts and M. Pierre Rosenberg, Departement des Peintures Musée du Louvre, the barely visible blue star on the lower left edge of the drawing could be even a stray crayon mark; hence it seemed doubtful that it would be a collector’s mark. See NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Fauchier-Magnan, Adrien
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Owen, Richard
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

2015: Fragonard amoreux: galant et libertin, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2015-2016.

Bibliography

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: p. 337: dK451, fig. 300.

1978: Williams 1978, 25.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 677, no. 1083, color repro.

1991: Wadley, Nicholas. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. London, 1991: fig. 26, p. 31.

2000: Rosenberg, Pierre. From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David & Ingres. Princeton, 2000: 51, fig. 63.