Plate Four: Dancing Nymph Shaking a Sistrum at a Satyr Holding Two Babies | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: R208NA
People: Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Title: Plate Four: Dancing Nymph Shaking a Sistrum at a Satyr Holding Two Babies
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: Bacchanals
Classification: Prints
Work Type: print
Date: 18th century
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/237671

Physical Descriptions

Technique: Etching
Dimensions: plate: 14.6 x 20.7 cm (5 3/4 x 8 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Royal Print Cabinet, Berlin, Exchange for two prints, 1896.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: Bau. 9

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Royal Print Cabinet, Berlin
Object Number: R208NA
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1988), pp. 154-157, cat. 70, repr. on p. 157 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), cat. 104, p. 171 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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