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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

A Stand of Cypresses in an Italian Park, c. 1760

Not on View

Medium

red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 23.5 x 37.7 cm (9 1/4 x 14 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Ananoff 1961, no. 904

Accession Number

1991.4.1

Artists / Makers

Jean Honoré Fragonard (artist) French, 1732 - 1806

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Inscription

by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: III: 5JNB

Provenance

M. H. Dreux (sale, Paris, 3 - 4 February 1870, no. 43); M. J. F. Mahérault (sale, Paris, 27-29 May 1880, no. 52); M. Lemarié; Marius Paulme (Lugt 1910) (sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13 May 1929, no. 82, pl. 55); (Richard Owen, London); John Nicholas Brown, Providence, RI, 1929; (David Tunick, New York); purchased 1991 by NGA.

Associated Names

Brown, John Nicholas
Dreux, M. H.
Galerie Georges Petit
Lemarié
Mahérault, M.-J.-F.
Owen, Richard
Paulme, Marius
Tunick, Inc., David

Exhibition History

1921: Exposition de dessins de Fragonard, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1921, no. 181.

1931: French Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1931, no. 13.

1934: French Drawings and Prints of the 18th Century, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1934, no. 13.

1958: French Drawings from American Collections, Clouet to Matisse. Boymans Museum, Rotterdam; Musée de L'Orangerie, Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1958 - 1959. no. 44, pl. 70.

1962: Forty Master Drawings from the Collection of John Nicholas Brown, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 1962, no. 9.

1968: France in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy, London, 1968, no. 252.

1978: Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge; The Frick Collection, New York, 1978 - 1979, no. 7 (Eunice Williams).

1990: J. H. Fragonard e H. Robert a Roma, Villa Medici, Rome, 1990-1991, no. 74.

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, 33, 43, no. 32.

2000: Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 190-191 (entry by Margaret Morgan Grasselli).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 198-199, 287, no. 87 (color).

Bibliography

1889: Portalis, Roger de. Fragonard, Sa vie et son oeuvre. 2 vols. Paris, 1889, 2: 316.

1961: Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806). 4 vols. Paris, 1961-1970, 2: no. 904; 4: 383.

1987: Rosenberg, Pierre. Fragonard. Exh. cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987-1988. Paris, 1987: under no. 34, p. 111, fig. 2 (erroneously captioned).

1992: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, D.C., 1992: 321, repro.