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Jean-Claude-Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non, after Jean Honoré Fragonard

The Stubborn Donkey, 1770

Not on View

Medium

etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 19.4 × 27.2 cm (7 5/8 × 10 11/16 in.)

sheet: 19.7 × 27.8 cm (7 3/4 × 10 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Cayeux 1963, no. 112

Accession Number

2019.23.7

Artists / Makers

Jean-Claude-Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non (artist) French, 1727 - 1791

Jean Honoré Fragonard (artist after) French, 1732 - 1806

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Fragonard del.; lower right in plate: Saint Non Sc. 1770.

Provenance

(Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt); purchased by NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Rumbler, Helmut H., Mr.

Bibliography

1963: Cayeux Jean de. "Introduction au catalogue critique des griffonis de Saint-Non." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1963: pp. 297-384. Paris: F. de Nobele, 1964. Separately published. Paris Librairie Armand Colin, 1964: no. 112

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