1978.23: The Donkey's Breakfast

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1978.23

People

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

Title

The Donkey's Breakfast

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1770s

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/295623

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown and gray wash over graphite on toned cream antique laid paper, laid down on a tan card, framing lines in brown ink

Dimensions

34 x 49 cm (13 3/8 x 19 5/16 in.)

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

1978.23

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Eunice Williams, Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, 1978), cat. no. 46, pp. 118-119, repr; and p. 16 repr. as detail
• Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1988), cat. 225, pp. 462-463, repr.
• Eunice Williams, "Gens, Honorez Fragonard!": Works from the Collections of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1993), checklist no.17
• Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Fragonard, Editions Terrail (Paris, 2006), pp. 82-83, repr.
• Dr. Astrid Reuter, Fragonard: Poesie & Leidenschaft, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, 2013), p. 114, fig. 38/1

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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