Inscription
in later hand, across center verso in graphite: fragonard / vente[octaval?]; across bottom verso in graphite: (4 lines in French)
Provenance
M. Marquiset; (sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28-29 April 1890, no. 90); M. Cournerie; (sale, Paris, 8-9 December 1891, no. 72); Lucien Guiraud, Paris; Richard Owen, Paris; purchased 1939 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; gift 1963 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1978
- Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections. National Gallery of Art, Washington and tour, 1978, no. 35.
- 1990
- Gardens on Paper, Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. NGA, 1990, no. 87, repro.
- 1991
- J.H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma. Villa Medici, Rome, 1990-1991, no. 163.
Bibliography
- n.d.
- Thomas Le Claire Kunsthandel. Master Drawings 1500-1900. Hamburg, n.d.: under no. 23.
- 1961
- Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806). 4 vols. Paris, 1961-1970.
- 1977
- Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 336, dK548, fig. 299.
- 1987
- Rosenberg, Pierre. Fragonard. Exh. Cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987-1988. Paris, 1987: 363, fig. 3.
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