Fragonard and Bergeret with Their Wives Visiting a Tomb in Pompeii
1781
Artist, French, active 1765 - 1805
Claude-Mathieu Fessard after Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper [proof]
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Credit Line
Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips in memory of Neil Phillips
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Dimensions
plate: 18.4 x 24.6 cm (7 1/4 x 9 11/16 in.)
sheet: 24.6 x 30.5 cm (9 11/16 x 12 in.) -
Accession Number
1999.141.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
IFF (1700), no. 86, State proof
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Series Title
Voyage Pittoresque ou Description des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicile (Picturesque Journey or Description of the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily)
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 1999 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2022
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, 2022-2023.
Bibliography
1930
Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XIIIe siècle. Paris, 1930 - 1977.
2022
Kopp, Édouard, Rudy, Elizabeth, and Smentek, Kristel, editors.Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment. Exh. cat. Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 2022-2023.
Inscriptions
none
Markings
none
Watermarks
unidentified circle
Wikidata ID
Q75426343