Angelica Is Exposed to the Orc
1780s
Artist, French, 1732 - 1806
Artwork overview
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Medium
black chalk with brown and gray wash on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 39.3 x 25.7 cm (15 1/2 x 10 1/8 in.)
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Accession
1978.10.2
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1945
A Loan Exhibition of 52 Drawings for Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso" by Fragonard. Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington. 1945, no. 24.
1978
Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, pp. 84-85.
1987
Fragonard. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Paris and New York, 1987, no. 261 (Pierre Rosenberg).
2007
Fragonard, Les plaisirs d'un siècle. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2007-2008, no. 62 (Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachez).
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 210-213, 288, no. 92b (color).
2015
Fragonard amoreux: galant et libertin, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2015-2016.
Bibliography
1877
Portalis, Baron Roger de. Les dessinateurs d'illustrations au 18e siècle. 2 parts in 4 vols. Paris, 1877, 1 (pt. 2): 222-223, 228.
1889
Portalis, Baron Roger de. Fragonard. Sa vie et son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1889: 2: 214-215, 311
1912
Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres à gravures de XVIIIe siècle. 6th ed., rev. and augmented by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col. 97.
1923
Ricci, Seymour de. The Roederer Library of French Books, Prints, and Drawings of the 18th Century. Philadelphia, 1923: n.p. [11-12].
1945
Mongan, Elizabeth, Philip Hofer, and Jean Seznec. Fragonard: Drawings for Ariosto. New York, 1945: pl. 66.
2003
Dupuy-Vachey, Marie-Anne. Fragonard et le Roland Furieux. Paris, 2003: 166-167, 383, no. 68.
Watermarks
-L / -B (unidentified)
Wikidata ID
Q64581219