1965.276: Woman Standing with Hand on Hip

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.276

People

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)

Title

Woman Standing with Hand on Hip

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Woman Standing with Hand on Hip

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1780

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/299859

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Fabricated red chalk on white antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

38.1 x 24.7 cm (15 x 9 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: none visible; laid down
• inscription:

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Thomas Dimsdale, London (his mark, L.2426, lower left); William Mayor, London (his mark, L.2799, lower right); his sale, London, June 1875, lot 583; John Postle Heseltine, London; Guiraud Brothers, Paris; E. Gimpel & Wildenstein, Paris and New York; Meta and Paul J. Sachs (by 1919); Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs, inv. no. 1965.276

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.276

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Facing three-quarters left, she takes her position for a step in the minuet and casts a glance behind her over her right shoulder as she points her left foot forward; her left hand is place on her hip beneath her pannier.

Publication History

• John Postle Heseltine, Drawings by François Boucher, Jean Honoré Fragonard, and Antoine Watteau in the Collection of J. P. H., Autotype Co. (London, 1900), cat. no. 1, p. 33
• A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the National Loan Exhibition, exh. cat., Grafton Galleries (London, 1909), cat. no. 90, p. 171
• Lucien Guiraud, Catalogue de dessins de l'école française du dix-huitième siècle: provenant de la collection Heseltine, Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, 1913), cat. no. 13
• René Gimpel, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of Fragonard, exh. cat., E. Gimpel & Wildenstein (New York, 1914), cat. no. 28, p. 53
• Guy Pène du Bois, ed., Arts and Decoration, Hewitt Publications (New York, 1916), p. 207
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 603, pp. 324-25, vol. 3, n.p.
• Annemarie Henle, Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, exh. cat., Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition (San Francisco, 1940), cat. no. 36, pp. 15, 78
• Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States, J. J. Augustin, Inc. (New York, 1947), p. 208
• Robert Tyler Davis, The Eighteenth Century Art of France and England / L’Art en France et en Angleterre au dix-huitième siècle, exh. cat., The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, 1950), cat. no. 74, p. 15
• Agnes Mongan, "Find the Artist", Art News (March 1951), vol. 50, p. 21
• Charles P. Parkhurst, Exhibition of Master Drawings of the 18th Century in France and Italy, exh. cat., Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, 1951), cat. no. 7, p. 52
• Agnes Mongan, French Drawings of Five Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, 1951), cat. no. 18, p. 15
• An Exhibition of Drawings, exh. cat., Colby College, Miller Library (Waterville, 1956), cat. no. 15, n.p.
• Louis Réau, Fragonard: sa vie et son oeuvre, Elsevier (Brussels, 1956), p. 215
• James Watrous, The Craft of Old-Master Drawings, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI, 1957), p. 122
• Agnes Mongan, De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), cat. no. 48, n.p.
• Agnes Mongan, Van Clouet tot Matisse: tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam, 1958), cat. no. 48, n.p..
• Stanisława Sawicka, “Wystawa rysunków francuskich ze zbior ów amerykańskich", Biuletyn historii sztuki, Zakiad Narodowy (Warsaw, 1959), vol. 21, no. 3-4, pp. 362-68, pp. 362, 365
• Gertrude Rosenthal, Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effect, exh. cat., Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1959), cat. no. 49, p. 32
• Gérard Bauer, Dessins français du dix-huitième siècle: la figure humaine, Éditions du Crédit Lyonnais (Paris, 1959), n.p.
• Agnes Mongan, French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no. 48, pp. 51-52
• Leonard Slatkes and Carol Wishy, Great Master Drawings of Seven Centuries, exh. cat., ed. Julius S. Held, Columbia University (New York, 1959), pp. 63-64
• Alexandre Ananoff, L'Œuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), Libraire F. de Nobele (Paris, 1961-1970), vol. 2, cat. no. 726, p. 69
• Agnes Mongan, Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965]: given and bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, exh. cat., Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, 1965), cat. no. 32, n.p.
• Eunice Williams, Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, 1978), cat. no. 30, pp. 88-89
• Debora Mayer, "Technical Examination of Red Chalk" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982), Unpublished, pp. 1-33 passim
• Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing, Prentice-Hall Press (Englewood Cliffs, 1984), pp. 187, 189
• Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1987-1988), pp. 432-33
• Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing, Prentice-Hall Press (Englewood Cliffs, 1992), p. 207
• Eunice Williams, "Gens, Honorez Fragonard!": Works from the Collections of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1993), cat. no. 15, n.p.
• Marie-Hélène Prat, ed., Littérature: Moyen Age, XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles, Bordas (Paris, 1997), p. 417
• Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
• Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Francesco Buccella, Sonia Couturier, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Melissa Hyde, Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Isabelle Mayer-Michalon, and Xavier Salmon, Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-Century French Art from The Horvitz Collection, exh. cat., ed. Alvin L. Clark, Jr., The Horvitz Collection (2017), pp. 240, 522-n.8
• 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), cat. no. 88, repr., p. 17
• Giulio Dalvit, Aimee Ng, and Xavier F. Salomon, The Eveillard Gift, exh. cat., The Frick Collection and Paul Holberton Publishing (New York, 2022), p. 89 note 2

Exhibition History

• A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the National Loan Exhibition, Grafton Galleries, 01/01/1909 - 12/31/1910
• Catalogue de dessins de l'école française du dix-huitième siècle: provenant de la collection Heseltine, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 01/01/1913 - 12/31/1913
• Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings of Fragonard, E. Gimpel & Wildenstein, 01/01/1914 - 12/31/1914
• Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 01/01/1940 - 12/31/1940
• Drawings from the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University (Collected by Paul J. Sachs), Century Club, New York, 05/12/1947 - 09/25/1947
• The Eighteenth Century Art of France and England / L’Art en France et en Angleterre au dix-huitième siècle, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 04/27/1950 - 05/31/1950
• Exhibition of Master Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in France and Italy, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, 01/01/1951 - 01/31/1951
• Five Centuries of Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Montreal, 10/01/1953 - 11/30/1953
• An Exhibition of Drawings, Colby College, Miller Library, Waterville, 04/27/1956 - 05/23/1956
• French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to Matisse, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 07/31/1958 - 09/28/1958; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 10/24/1958 - 01/02/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 02/03/1959 - 03/15/1959
• The Age of Elegance: The Rococo and its Effect, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 04/25/1959 - 06/14/1959
• Memorial Exhibition: Works of Art from the Collection of Paul J. Sachs [1878-1965] Given and Bequeathed to the Fogg Art Museum Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/15/1965 - 01/15/1966; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12/19/1966 - 02/26/1967
• 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
• “Gens, Honorez Fragonard!”: Works from the Collection of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 05/15/1993 - 07/11/1993
• 32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/19/2017 - 09/13/2017

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