Visit to the Nurse

c. 1780/1790

Jean Honoré Fragonard

Artist, French, 1732 - 1806

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gray wash and watercolor over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 30.2 x 38.1 cm (11 7/8 x 15 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.217.19

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ananoff 1961, no. 1950

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marie-Joseph-Frédéric Villot, Paris (sold Paris, Hôtel Drouot, May 16-18, 1858, no. 122); H. Walferdin [d. 1863], Paris (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 12-16, 1880, no. 200); Capt. Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris; Prince A. d'Arenberg, Paris; (Jacques Seligmann et Cie, Paris); Mrs. Jesse I. Straus, New York (sold, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., Oct 21, 1970, no. 30); Armand Hammer Collection, 1970; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1910

  • Ausstellung von Werken französischer Kunst des XVIII. Jahrhunderts, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1910, no. 178.

1928

  • La Vie Parisienne au XVIIIe Siècle, Musée Carnavalet, Paris, 1928, 166.`

1931

  • Exposition de Dessins de Fragonard, Galerie Jacques Seligmann et Fils, Ancien Hôtel de Sagan, Paris, 1931, no. 22.

1971

  • Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1971, starting with Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971.

Bibliography

1880

  • Portalis, Baron Roger. "Le Collection Walferdin et ses Fragonards." Gazette des Beaux-Arts Vol. 21 (1880), p. 313.

1956

  • Louis Réau, Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre, Brussels, 1956: p. 81, no. 206.

1961

  • Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806). 4 vols. Paris, 1961-1970.

Wikidata ID

Q64581233

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