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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1978.25
People
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Title
The Magnificent One (Le Magnifique)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1790
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295240

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
19.8 x 14 cm (7 13/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: None visible–drawing laid down

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Therese Kuhn Straus in memory of her husband, Herbert N. Straus, Harvard Class of 1903
Accession Year
1978
Object Number
1978.25
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Eunice Williams, "Gens, Honorez Fragonard!": Works from the Collections of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1993), checklist no. 29

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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