I Reread Them with Pleasure
1788-1789
Artist, French, 1761 - 1837
Marguerite Gérard
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
Gift of Edwin L. Cox – Ed Cox Foundation, Chester Dale Fund, and Patrons' Permanent Fund
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Dimensions
overall: 45 × 55 cm (17 11/16 × 21 5/8 in.)
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Accession Number
2025.29.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Possibly Marie-Antoine Didot sale, Galerie le Brun, Paris, 27 December 1796, no. 63).[1] Art market, Switzerland, 1978;[2] (Galerie Kurt Meissner, Zurich, with its pendant, 2025.29.2); private collection. (Galerie Eric Coatalem, Paris); purchased 2025 by NGA.
[1] Lot 63 was described as “Deux jeunes Amants occupés á relire leurs lettres” (two young lovers rereading their letters). As measurements were not given, it is not possible to confirm whether this was 2025.29.1 or another, smaller, version that is in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen – Neue Pinakothek, Munich.
[2] According to Kurt Meissner, Marcel Roethlisberger; and Werner Sumowski, Kurt Meissner: Gemälde und Zeichnungen aus sechzig Jahren Kunsthandel, Zurich, 2003: 58.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2003
Meissner, Kurt and Marcel Roethlisberger. Gemälde und Zeichnungen aus sechzig Jahren Kunsthandel. Zurich, 2003: 58, 59, repro, 281.
2005
Rosenberg, Pierre. Poussin, Lorrain, Watteau, Fragonard: Französische Meisterwerke des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts aus deutschen Sammlungen. Exh. cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, Haus der Kunst, Munich, and Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 2005-2006: 350, fig. 1.
2006
Cuzin, Jean-Pierre, et al., Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806): origenes e influencias, de Rembrandt al siglo XXI. Exh. cat. Barcelona, 2006: 201.