Rinaldo, Astride Baiardo, Flies Off in Pursuit of Angelica, c. 1795

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series Title

Ariostos's Orlando Furioso: canto II, 19, 23

Medium

black chalk with brown wash and touches of pen andbrown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

overall (approximate): 39.2 x 26.2 cm (15 7/16 x 10 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.3.9080

Artists / Makers

Jean Honoré Fragonard (artist) French, 1732 - 1806

Image Use

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Provenance

H. Walferdin [d. 1863]; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12-16 April 1880, no. 228). Jacques Doucet [1853-1929], Paris; bought 1912 by Louis Olry-Roederer; sold 1923. Lessing J. Rosenwald (Lugt Supp.1760b); gift 1943 to NGA.

Associated Names

Doucet, Jacques
Drouot, Hôtel
Olry-Roederer, Louis
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Walferdin, H.

Exhibition History

1944: French Prints and Drawings of the XVIIIth Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1944-1945, no catalogue.

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

1951: French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, University of Pittsburgh, 1951.

1953: Flight, Fantasy, Faith, Fact: A Loan Exhibition Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered Flight, Dayton Art Institute, OH, 1953-1954, no. 115.

1961: An Exhibition of French Masters: Rococo to Romanticism. UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, 1961, no. 48.

1964: The Art of the Sublime: Romantic Art 1750-1850, Pomona College Gallery, Claremont, CA, 1964, no. 18.

2007: Fragonard, Les plaisirs d'un siècle. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2007-2008, no. 57 (Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey).

Bibliography

1945: Mongan/Hofer/Seznec 1945, 11.

1976: Feinblatt, Ebria. Old master drawings from American collections. Los Angeles, 1976: 163.

1993: Thompson, James. "Nicolas Poussin." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 50, no. 3 (1993): 24, fig. 19.

2003: Dupuy-Vachey, Marie-Anne. Fragonard et le Roland Furieux. Paris, 2003: 64-65, 377, no. 2.

2009: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009: 212, fig. 2.