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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1978.24
People
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Title
The Happy Family
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
late 1770s
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/295667

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown wash over graphite, with traces of white gouache, on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
33.4 x 45.4 cm (13 1/8 x 17 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jacques Doucet; Madame Noël Bardac, Paris; Therese Kuhn Straus, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1978, inv. no. 1978.24

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
1978.24
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 77, n.p., pl. 77, 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.18
  • Jeffrey Fontana, Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Necoclassical Drawing, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1999), checklist no. 20

Exhibition History

  • European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
  • “Gens, Honorez Fragonard!”: Works from the Collection of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/15/1993 - 07/11/1993
  • Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/07/1999 - 10/31/1999

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