1993.162: Dedication to Queen Marie-Antoinette

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1993.162

People

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)

Title

Dedication to Queen Marie-Antoinette

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Study for the Dedication to Queen Marie-Antoinette in the Abbé de Saint-Non's "Voyage Pittoresque"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1781

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/294469

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown wash and black chalk, with traces of red chalk, on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

26.4 x 21.3 cm (10 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Churchill 329
• inscription: in drawing, on banner, center, brown wash: A LA REINE [in reverse]
• inscription: verso, lower left, graphite: 12 [encircled]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Unidentified collector (their mark, not in Lugt, lower right); sale, Drouot (Audap-Godeau-Solanet), Paris, 14 November 1986, lot 90; Didier Aaron et Cie, Paris (by 1992); Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund, and Richard Norton Memorial Fund, inv. no. 1993.162

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Purchase Fund, and Richard Norton Memorial Fund

Accession Year

1993

Object Number

1993.162

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1987-1988), p. 118 (as location unknown)
• Petra Lamers, Il viaggio nel Sud dell'Abbé de Saint-Non: Il "Voyage pittoresque à Naples et en Sicile:" La genesi, i disegni preparatori, le incisioni, Electa Napoli (Naples, 1992), cat. no. 295a, pp. 287-88
• Eunice Williams, "Gens, Honorez Fragonard!": Works from the Collections of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1993), cat. no. 25, n.p.
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr. and Edouard Kopp, French Drawings from the Age of Claude, Poussin, Watteau, and Fragonard: Highlights from the Collection of the Harvard Art Museums, Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2022), cat. no. 90, repr.

Exhibition History

• “Gens, Honorez Fragonard!”: Works from the Collection of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/15/1993 - 07/11/1993

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