- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1955.186
- People
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
- Title
- Reverie
- Other Titles
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Former Title: Young Girl Abandoned
Original Language Title: L'Abandonnée - Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1790
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/299817
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Brown and gray wash, black chalk, and traces of red chalk heightened with gum arabic(?) on cream antique laid paper prepared with gum arabic, laid down on a decorated mount
- Dimensions
- 33.8 x 24.9 cm (13 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
framed: 55.88 x 47.94 x 6.35 cm (22 x 18 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- watermark: indecipherable
- inscription: none
- label: verso of frame, bottom right, upside down, printed text: 7107
- Provenance
- Hippolyte Walferdin, Paris; his estate sale, Drouot (Escribe), Paris, 12-16 April 1880, lot 209, sold; to Albert Meyer, Paris; Camille Groult, Paris (by 1889); Wildenstein and Co., New York (by 1921), sold; to Charles E. Dunlap, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap, inv. no. 1955.186
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap
- Accession Year
- 1955
- Object Number
- 1955.186
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, L'art du dix-huitième siècle, A. Quantin (Paris, 1880-1882), vol. 2, p. 336
Baron Roger Portalis, Honoré Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre, J. Rothschild (Paris, 1889), vol. 1, pp. iii, 100-101, vol. 2, p. 294
Georges Wildenstein, Exposition d’œuvres de J.-H. Fragonard, exh. cat., Presses de Frazier-Soye (Paris, 1921), cat. no. 205, p. 57
Louis Réau, Fragonard: sa vie et son oeuvre, Elsevier (Brussels, 1956), p. 196
Alexandre Ananoff, L'Œuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), Libraire F. de Nobele (Paris, 1961-1970), vol. 2, cat. no. A.723, p. 68, vol. 3, n.p.
Harry D.M. Grier, ed., The Frick Collection: An Illustrated Catalogue, Princeton University Press (Princeton, 1968-2003), vol. 2, pp. 112, 120-n.33
Edgar Munhall, “Fragonard’s Studies for ‘The Progress of Love’", Apollo Publications Inc. (London, 1971), May, pp. 400-407, pp. 406-407
Eunice Williams, Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, 1978), cat. no. 61, pp. 150-51
Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), cat. no. 277, p. 237
Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1987-1988), cat. no. 156, p. 331
Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1988), cat. 156, repr. on p. 331
Eunice Williams, "Gens, Honorez Fragonard!": Works from the Collections of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1993), cat. no. 28, n.p.
James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), pp. 224-25
Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
Andrei Molotiu, “’The Progress of Love’ and the Magic Garden: Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s Decorative Ensemble for the Villa Maubert in Grasse", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Gazette des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 2001), ser. 6, vol. 137, no. 1585, pp. 91-114, p. 112-n.25
Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 2005), cat. no. 9, pp. 8, 12
Matthias Waschek, Marjorie B. Cohn, Judith Mann, and Stephan Wolohojian, Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, exh. cat., Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis, 2008), cat. no. 37, pp. 34, 37
Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, "Review: Fragonard's Progress of Love at the Frick Collection", The Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine Publications, Ltd. (London, 2013), vol. 155, May, pp. 335-36, p. 336-n.7
Satish Padiyar, Fragonard: Painting Out of Time, Reaktion Books (London, 2020), pp. 190, 192, 195, repr. p. 190 as fig. 109
- Exhibition History
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Exposition d’œuvres de J.-H. Fragonard, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 06/07/1921 - 07/10/1921
Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 11/19/1978 - 01/21/1979; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/16/1979 - 04/01/1979; The Frick Collection, New York, 04/20/1979 - 06/03/1979
Fragonard, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 09/24/1987 - 01/04/1988; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 02/02/1988 - 05/08/1988
“Gens, Honorez Fragonard!”: Works from the Collection of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/15/1993 - 07/11/1993
"To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 12/17/2005 - 03/12/2006
Ideal [Dis-] Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, 10/24/2008 - 10/03/2009
32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/19/2017 - 09/13/2017
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