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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1968.42.25
People
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Title
Composition Study; verso: Composition Study
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
c. 1758
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296040

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink, brown wash, and red chalk
Dimensions
actual: 16.5 x 24.3 cm (6 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, by descent?; to his heirs. Georges Huot, his great-grandson, sold; to George S. Hellman, New York, sold [through Kende Galleries, New York, April 10, 1952, lot 75]. Ira Spanierman. Martin Reymert and Gerald Norman, New York and London, sold; to Fogg Art Musuem, 1968

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Louise Haskell Daly Fund
Accession Year
1968
Object Number
1968.42.25
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, "Genre and Sex", French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Philip Conisbee, National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press (Washington, DC, 2007), pp. 201-219, p. 213, verso repr. fig. 15
  • Satish Padiyar, Fragonard: Painting Out of Time, Reaktion Books (London, 2020), pp. 155-157, cat. no. 90, repr. (recto)

Exhibition History

  • HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th Century Rotation #1: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 01/14/2011 - 03/05/2011

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