Rinaldo, Astride Baiardo, Flies Off in Pursuit of Angelica

c. 1795

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Associated Names
Jean Honoré Fragonard

Artist, French, 1732 - 1806

This is a monochrome drawing of a flying figure on a horse over a landscape. The top left shows a celestial or mythological figure gesturing energetically downwards. Below, a mounted rider on a rearing horse charges through the air. The landscape consists of rough, jagged forms suggestive of rocky terrain or mountains, with swirling foliage or clouds around the horse and rider. The composition conveys movement and drama, emphasized by light and shadow contrasts.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk with brown wash and touches of pen andbrown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 39.2 x 26.2 cm (15 7/16 x 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.9080

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

H. Walferdin [d. 1863]; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12-16 April 1880, no. 228). Jacques Doucet [1853-1929], Paris; bought 1912 by Louis Olry-Roederer; sold 1923. Lessing J. Rosenwald (Lugt Supp.1760b); gift 1943 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1940

  • Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 1940, no. 34b, repro.

1943

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 96-97, repro.

1944

  • French Prints and Drawings of the XVIIIth Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1944-1945, no catalogue.

1950

  • 18th Century Art of France and England, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1950.

1951

  • French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, University of Pittsburgh, 1951.

1953

  • Flight, Fantasy, Faith, Fact: A Loan Exhibition Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered Flight, Dayton Art Institute, OH, 1953-1954, no. 115.

1961

  • An Exhibition of French Masters: Rococo to Romanticism. UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, 1961, no. 48.

1964

  • The Art of the Sublime: Romantic Art 1750-1850, Pomona College Gallery, Claremont, CA, 1964, no. 18.

2007

  • Fragonard, Les plaisirs d'un siècle. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2007-2008, no. 57 (Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey).

Bibliography

1945

  • Mongan/Hofer/Seznec 1945, 11.

1976

  • Feinblatt, Ebria. Old master drawings from American collections. Los Angeles, 1976: 163.

1993

  • Thompson, James. "Nicolas Poussin." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 50, no. 3 (1993): 24, fig. 19.

2003

  • Dupuy-Vachey, Marie-Anne. Fragonard et le Roland Furieux. Paris, 2003: 64-65, 377, no. 2.

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: 212, fig. 2.

Watermarks

Circle with crown

Wikidata ID

Q64581214

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