Harvard Art Museums > 2.2013: Meadow with Trees; verso: Head of a Boy Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"Meadow with Trees; verso: Head of a Boy (Jean-Honoré Fragonard) , 2.2013,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Dec 22, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/312244. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. Identification and Creation Object Number 2.2013 People 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 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 Signed: lower left, brown ink: fragonard watermark: Illeg. inscription: signed, lower left, brown ink: fragonard Provenance Recorded Ownership History 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 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 Permissions The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. Publication History 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 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 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
