Park of an Italian Villa

1774/1775

François-André Vincent

Artist, French, 1746 - 1816

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk with brown wash heightened with white gouache on laid paper, with the remains of a framing line in brown ink

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 24.6 x 37 cm (9 11/16 x 14 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.15.12

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

ARD (Lugt 172). [1] Louis Paraf. S. S. Bond. [2] (sale, Amsterdam, R. W. P. De Vries, Dessins des maitres anciens et modernes, Part II, 1929, no. I, as Vue dans la Villa d’Este). (sale, Paris, Hotel Drouot, 23 March 1930, no. 16 as Coin de parc de villa italienne avec cascade, baluster, statue et vases, terrasse et pins parasols ). Richard Owen, Paris; purchased 1937 by Samuel H. Kress, New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art.
[1] According to both de Vries’ and Hotel Drouot’s sale catalogues, there was a mark on the drawing (probably lost or erased).
[2] Paraf and Bond according to de Vries and Hotel Drouot sale catalogues.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma, Villa Medici, Rome, 1990-1991, no. 177 (Jean-Pierre Cuzin).

  • Gardens on Paper, Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 86 (as Anon. French 18th c.), repro.

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 228-229, 289, no. 99 (color).

Bibliography

1961

  • Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806). 4 vols. Paris, 1961-1970, 3: no. 1529 (as Fragonard).

1977

  • Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 341, dK508, fig.307 (as Anon. French 18th c.).

1983

  • Cuzin, Jean-Pierre. "De Fragonard à Vincent," Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art français, Année 1981. Paris, 1983, 116-117, 123 note 59, fig. 28.

1988

  • Cuzin, Jean-Pierre. François-André Vincent, 1746-1816. Paris, 1988: no. 18.

2007

  • Cuzin, Jean-Pierre, and Dimitri Salmon. Fragonard: Regards croisés. Paris, 2007: 98, fig. 143 (color).

Inscriptions

illegibly in faded brown ink across the bottom; verso, in graphite at center right: Collections/Louis Paraf et/S.S. Bond/certifié par G. Wildenstein

Wikidata ID

Q64569770

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