Terrace and Garden of an Italian Villa, 1762/1763

Not on View

Medium

red chalk over traces of black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 24.8 x 37.6 cm (9 3/4 x 14 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Ananoff 1961, no. 313

Accession Number

1963.15.11

Artists / Makers

Jean Honoré Fragonard (artist) French, 1732 - 1806

Image Use

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Provenance

Gaston Le Breton [1845- 1915]; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6-8 December 1921, no. 63, as Fontaine dans le parc d’une ville italienne by Fragonard). Eugene Rodrigues [1853- ?1928], Paris by 1925; [1] (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris 28-29 November 1928, no. 113 as Parc de villa italienne by Fragonard). CR (similar to Lugt 632, Corrado Ricci [1858- 1934]). Richard Owen, Paris; Samuel H. Kress 1936 New York; gift 1963 to the National Gallery of Art

[1] Exhibited in Paris, Petit Palais, Le Paysage français de Poussin à Corot, 1925, no. 439.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Drouot, Hôtel
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Le Breton, Gaston
Owen, Richard
Rodrigues, Eugene

Exhibition History

1925: Le paysage français de Poussin à Corot. Petit Palais, Paris, 1925, no. 439.

1978: Drawings of Fragonard in North American COllections. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; Frick Collection, New York. Washington, 1978, no. 8 (Eunice Williams).

1990: Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 85, repro.

1990: J. H. Fragonard and H. Robert a Roma. Villa Medici, Rome, 1990, no. 76 (Pierre Rosenberg, Jean-Pierre Cuzin, and Catherine Roulot).

2009: Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 200-201, 287-288, no. 88 (color).

Bibliography

1961: Ananoff, Alexandre. L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806). 4 vols. Paris, 1961-1970, 1: no. 313.

1977: Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 341, dK452, fig.306 (as Hubert Robert).

1993: Jean Montague Massengale, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1993: 30, fig. 38.