The Muleteer Attacking Don Quixote as He Lies Helpless on the Ground, 1780s

Not on View

Medium

brush with brown and gray washes over black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 39.7 x 28.3 cm (15 5/8 x 11 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler

Accession Number

2000.9.13

Artists / Makers

Jean Honoré Fragonard (artist) French, 1732 - 1806

Image Use

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Marks and Labels

verso: stamped by French Customs

Provenance

Probably Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon, Paris, by 1795, one of 19 Don Quixote illustrations by Fragonard owned by him (sale, Paris, 1826, no. 728 [the group]); to Delaunay. Lt. Col. E. W. Blunt Mackenzie, Castle Leod, Strathpeffer, Scotland (sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 July 1933, no. 98); Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin, Washington, D.C. (not in Lugt), 1933; his wife, Therese Iselin Laughlin, Washington, D.C., 1941; their daughter, Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, New York, 1958; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Blunt Mackenzie, E. W., Lieutenant-Colonel
Chanler, Gertrude Laughlin
Denon, Vivant
Laughlin, Irwin Boyle, The Hon.
Laughlin, Therese Iselin
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1982: Eighteenth Century Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, NGA, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 8.

2000: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000 (no catalogue).

Bibliography

1889: Portalis, Baron Roger. Fragonard, Sa vie et son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1889, 2: 215, 299.

1961: Ananoff, Alexandre. "Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard et son père." Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (1961): 155-157 (the series as by A. E. Fragonard).

1961: Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806). 4 vols. Paris, 1961-1970: 4:no. 2667 (the series as by A. E. Fragonard).

1987: Rosenberg, Pierre. Fragonard. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987: 499-500 (the series).