Orlando and Angelica Arrive at Charlemagne's Camp

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Associated Names
Jean Honoré Fragonard

Artist, French, 1732 - 1806

This is a drawing of a person on horseback surrounded by ethereal figures. The composition shows an individual mounted on a rearing horse. The scene is full of movement with swirling clouds and several cherubic figures, some playing musical instruments, seemingly emerging or descending from the sky. The drawing uses light lines creating a sense of motion and fluidity, while the sepia tones lend an antique and classical feel to the overall image.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk, stumping, with brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Edith G. Rosenwald

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 42.6 x 26.8 cm (16 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1978.10.4

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1950

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

1965

  • Of Time and the Image: Three Periods of Change, Philadelphia College of Art, 1965-1966, no. 45.

2007

  • Fragonard, Les plaisirs d'un siècle. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2007-2008, 122, no. 56 (Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachez).

Bibliography

1945

  • Mongan, Elizabeth, Philip Hofer and Jean Seznec. Fragonard drawings for Ariosto. New York, 1945: pl. 1.

1978

  • Williams 1978, no. 62.

2003

  • Dupuy-Vachey, Marie-Anne. Fragonard et le Roland Furieux. Paris, 2003: 34-35, no. 2.

Inscriptions

in unknown hand, across bottom: arrivee de Roland Et d'Angelique au Camp

Wikidata ID

Q64581224

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