A Prayer for Grandpapa

late 1770s

Jean Honoré Fragonard

Artist, French, 1732 - 1806

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 34.8 x 44.8 cm (13 11/16 x 17 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.217.17

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ananoff 1961, no. 61

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Louis Antoine-August Rohan-Chabot, Paris (sold Paris, Dec 8, 1807, no. 43); Baron Vivant-Denon, Paris (sold Paris, Feb 2, 1846, no. 269); H. Walferdin [d. 1863], Paris (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 12-16, 1880, no. 199); Comte de Jaucourt, Paris; Sigismond Bardac [1856-1919], Paris; George and Florence Blumenthal; (sold Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Dec 1-2, 1932, no. 30); (Jean Seligmann, Paris); Mrs. Jesse I. Straus [1876-1970], New York; (sold New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., Oct 21, 1970, no. 34); Armand Hammer Collection, 1970; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1860

  • Tableaux et dessins de l'école française, principalement du XVIIIe siècle, tirés des collections d'amateurs. Salle Martinet, Paris, 1960, no. 12 (as "La Prière")(Philippe Burty).

1921

  • Exposition d'Oeuvres de J.-H. Fragonard, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Pavillon de Marsan, Louvre, Paris, 1921, no. 133 (Georges Wildenstein, ed.).

1971

  • Exhibited almost continuously with the Armand Hammer collection from late 1970 to 1987, starting with the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock (except National Gallery of Norway, Oslo, 1979, and Natonalmuseum, Stockholm, 1979.

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 87.

1979

  • Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass.; The Frick Collection, New York; 1978-1979, 23, 120-121, no. 46 (as "Grandfather's Reprimand")(Eunice Williams).

1987

  • Fragonard, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Metropolian Museum of Art, New York; 1987-1988, no. 224 (as "Demandez pardon au grand-papa")(Pierre Rosenberg).

  • Master Drawings from The Armand Hammer Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1987, no. 21.

1999

  • Dominique-Vivant Denon: L'oeil de Napoléon, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1999-2000, no. 591 as "La réprimande du grand-papa").

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 202-203, 288, no. 89 (color).

Bibliography

n.d.

  • Salz, Alan, et al. Tableaux et dessins. Didier Aaron, Catalogue V. Paris-London-New York, n.d.: under no. 12 (reproduced).

1826

  • Pérignon, A.N. Description des objets d'art qui compose le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V. Denon (II) tableaux, dessins et miniatures. Paris, 1826: 178, no. 732.

1889

  • Baron Roger Portalis. Honoré Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre. Paris, 1889, 2: 310-311 (as "La prière," "La prière au grand-père," and "La réprimande du grand papa").

1956

  • Réau, Louis. Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre. Brussels, 1956: 206 (as "Visite au docteur").

1961

  • Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806). 4 vols. Paris, 1961-1970, 1: no. 41; 2: 294.

1972

  • Christopher White. "The Hammer Collection: Drawings." Apollo 95 (June 1972); 460.

1977

  • Dalevèze, Jean. "Trois maîtres de dessin français du XVIIIe siècle dans la collection Armand Hammer." L'Oeil, no. 261 (1977): 11, fig. 8.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 677, no. 1082, color repro.

1993

  • Jean Montague Massengale. Jean-Honoré Fragonard. New York, 1993: 38-39, fig. 55 (as "Ask Grandfather's Pardon").

Wikidata ID

Q64581231

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