Olympia Tells Roland Her Sad Story

1780s

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Associated Names
Jean Honoré Fragonard

Artist, French, 1732 - 1806

This is a drawing of two seated figures with a table between them. The scene includes one figure on the left wearing armor, gesturing upwards, while the figure on the right holds an arm raised and wears a dress and a crown or headdress. Light, wispy lines above suggest ghostly or celestial figures hovering above them. The composition is delicately sketched in soft pencil lines, capturing the folds of fabric and the contours of the figures with light shading. The drawing conveys a narrative or interaction between the two central figures, engaged in a conversation or an exchange of significance.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 39.5 × 26 cm (15 9/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.40.55


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]

Associated Names

Bibliography

1945

  • Mongan, Elizabeth, Philip Hofer, and Jean Seznec. Fragonard: Drawings for Ariosto. New York, 1945:

2003

  • Dupuy-Vachey, Marie-Anne. Fragonard et le Roland Furieux. Paris, 2003:

Watermarks

MR (?) countermark


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