Family Promenade in the Park, 1765/1766

Not on View

Medium

watercolor and gouache with pen and black ink, with later framing line in black ink

Dimensions

overall: 27.4 x 38.9 cm (10 13/16 x 15 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips Fund in Honor of Andrew Robison

Accession Number

2004.96.1

Artists / Makers

Pierre-Antoine Baudouin (artist) French, 1723 - 1769

Image Use

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Inscription

across lower center of mount: La Promenade dans le Parc

Provenance

M. le Baron de Schwiter, Paris (his sale, Hotel Drouot, 20-21 April 1883, no. 128, as Schall); purchased by Milhes as a Fragonard (according to note in NGA copy of the sale catalogue). (Didier Aaron, London, as Claude Hoin); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

Private Collector c/o Didier Aaron, Inc.

Exhibition History

1954: Plaisirs de la Campagne, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1954, no. 78 (as Jean-Honoré Fragonard).

1956: De Watteau à Prud'hon, Paris, 1956 (checklist published in Gazette des Beaux-Arts), no. 122 (as Jean-Honoré Fragonard).

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005 (no cat.).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 176-177, 285-286, no. 77 (color).

Bibliography

1889: Portalis, Baron Roger. Fragonard, Sa vie et son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1889: 319 (attributed to Fragonard).

1961: Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806). 4 vols. Paris, 1971-1970, 2: 93-94, no 819 (not by Fragonard); 3: 95, no. 1468 (Fragonard); 4: 378, under no. 819.

2010: Stein, Perrin. "French Drawings, Washington," The Burlington Magazine 102 (January 2010): 67.