Bradamante Tries to Catch Hold of the Hippogryph [recto]
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: 38.6 x 24.6 cm (15 3/16 x 9 11/16 in.)
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Accession
1978.10.5.a
Associated Artworks
Man on a Horse [verso]
Jean Honoré Fragonard
1732
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. 22.
1946
Illustrations to the Poems of Ariosto and Tasso. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1946, no. 23.
2009
Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 210-212, 288, no. 92a (color).
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.
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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. 23.
1987
Cuzin, Jean-Pierre. Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Vie et oeuvre, Catalogue complet des peintures. (Fribourg, 1987): 225, fig. 280.
2003
Dupuy-Vachey, Marie-Anne. Fragonard et le Roland Furieux. Paris, 2003: 96-97, 380, no. 33.
Watermarks
Circle with crown (unidentified)
Wikidata ID
Q64581225