Don Quixote Defeated by the Windmill, 1780s

Not on View

Medium

brush with brown and gray washes over charcoal on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 41.7 x 29.7 cm (16 7/16 x 11 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gertrude Laughlin Chanler

Accession Number

2000.9.10

Artists / Makers

Jean Honoré Fragonard (artist) French, 1732 - 1806

Image Use

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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. 95); 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. 10.

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

2007: Fragonard, Les plaisirs d'un siècle. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2007-2008, no. 77 (Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachez).

Bibliography

1877: Portalis, Baron Roger de. Les dessinateurs d'illustrations au 18e siècle. 2 parts in 4 vols. Paris, 1877: 1 (pt. 2): 224, 229.

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

1945: Mongan, Elizabeth, Philip Hofer, and Jean Seznec. Fragonard Drawings for Ariosto. New York, 1945: 19-20, 35 (the series).

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 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 Alexandre Evariste Fragonard).

1978: William, Eunice. Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; Frick Collection, New York. Washington, 1978: under no. 60 (the series).

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

1996: Laughton, Bruce. "Daumier's Drawings of Don Quixote." Master Drawings 34, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 400-401 (the series).

2003: Dupuy-Vachey, Marie-Anne. Fragonard et le Roland Furieux. Paris, 2003: 8 (the series).

2007: Dupuy-Vachey, Marie-Anne. Fragonard: Les plaisirs d'un siècle. Exh. cat. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2007: 140-142 (the series).

2009: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009: 206, fig. 1 (color).