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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M19808
People
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Title
Plate Two: The Satyr's Family
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Bacchanals
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1763
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/261950

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
design: 13.5 x 20.3 cm (5 5/16 x 8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: FRAG9O [sic] [engraved in plate]
  • inscription: outside border, lower right corner, black printer's ink, engraved in plate: 3
  • inscription: centered at bottom of oval, inside design, black printer's ink, engraved in plate, in artist's hand: FRAG9O [sic]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Philip Hofer, purchase, 1957. Old mat said that the set of four was purchased from "Helmuth Walloch (formerly E. Hirsch) Nov '57 for UED." Hofer's price code was CUMBERLAND = 1234567890, which means that the set of four cost $250.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i?
Standard Reference Number
Bau. 8

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Frances L. Hofer
Object Number
M19808
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. 68, repr. on p. 155 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

Exhibition History

  • Eighteenth Century European Ceramics, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/02/2005 - 06/09/2008
  • Ancient to Modern, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/31/2012 - 06/01/2013

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