- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2.2013
- People
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
- Title
- Meadow with Trees; verso: Head of a Boy
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1780-1785
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/312244
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black chalk with traces of white chalk; verso: black chalk with traces of graphite on light-tan antique laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24.9 × 34.8 cm (9 13/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: lower left, brown ink: fragonard
- watermark: Illeg.
- inscription: signed, lower left, brown ink: fragonard
- Provenance
- Baron Paul Hatvany, London; his sale, Christie’s, London, 24 June 1980, lot 48; Kate de Rothschild, London (by 1990); Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Promised gift of Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn in honor of Eunice Williams, inv. no. 2.2013
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Promised gift of Marjorie B. and Martin Cohn in honor of Eunice Williams
- Accession Year
- 2014
- Object Number
- 2.2013
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Alan Wintermute, ed., Claude to Corot: The Development of Landscape Painting in France, exh. cat., P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd. (New York, 1990), cat. no. 39, pp. 200-201
Alfred Mac Adam, "Review: Claude to Corot, Colnaghit", ARTnews, ARTnews Associates (New York, February 1991), vol. 90, no. 2, p. 148, p. 148
Eunice Williams, "Gens, Honorez Fragonard!": Works from the Collections of Harvard University and Harvard Friends, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1993), cat. no. 29, n.p.
Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Fragonard, Editions Terrail (Paris, 2006), pp. 240-41
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. 89, repr.; verso repr. p. 238
- Exhibition History
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Members Collect, Boston Athenaeum, 12/26/1989 - 01/26/1990
Claude to Corot: The Development of Landscape Painting in France, Colnaghi USA Ltd., New York, 11/01/1990 - 12/15/1990
“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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