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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1928.152
People
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
After Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian (Caprese, Italy 1475 - 1564 Rome, Italy)
Title
God the Father and the Prophet Joel
Other Titles
Former Title: Two Sketches after Michelangelo
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1761
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/298359

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, laid down on off-white laid paper with blue antique laid paper borders adhered to face, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
29.5 x 20.6 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: None visible–drawing laid down
  • inscription: Right center: Michelange Chappelle Sistine

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
René Gimpel, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1928, inv. no. 1928.152

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of René Gimpel
Accession Year
1928
Object Number
1928.152
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
At the top of the page is God the Father creating the sun and moon, copied from Michelangelo's fresco in the Sistine Chapel; at the bottom of the page is the Prophet Joel, also copied from the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel.

Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. I, cat. no. 606, p. 326
  • Eunice Williams, Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, 1978), cat. no. 10, pp. 46-47, repr.
  • Pierre Rosenberg and Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Panopticon italiano: un diario di viaggio ritrovato, 1759-1761, Edizioni dell'Elefante (Rome, 1986), cat. no. 59, p. 349, repr.
  • Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1988), cat. 41, repr. on p. 123
  • Eunice Williams, "Gens, Honorez Fragonard!": Works from the Collections of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1993), checklist no. 3
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 2000), cat. no. 347, repr.
  • Satish Padiyar, Fragonard: Painting Out of Time, Reaktion Books (London, 2020), pp. 158-160, repr. p. 159 as fig. 92
  • 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), p. 229, fig. 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
  • Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 03/16/2000 - 05/28/2000; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 06/25/2000 - 09/17/2000

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