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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1898.156
People
Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard, French (Grasse 1780 - 1850 Paris)
Title
An Old Man with Two Children
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
18th-19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299434

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown wash over graphite on heavy cream wove paper
Dimensions
7.8 × 11.8 cm (3 1/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, l.l.: Fragonard
  • inscription: lower left: Fragonard

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Chandler collection. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year
1898
Object Number
1898.156
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 688
  • Agnes Mongan, David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1996), cat. no. 163, repr.
  • Rébecca Duffeix, Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard: 1780-1850, Arthena (Paris, 2022), D.434, p. 297, ill.

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