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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.71
People
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Title
Monsieur Fanfan
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1778
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/318293

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 22.8 × 17.2 cm (9 × 6 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r., in margin, Mademoiselle M. Gerard (difficult to read; margin is closely trimmed) l.l., graphite, fragonard Spl. 1780

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
i or ii
Standard Reference Number
IFF, vol IX, no. 30, p. 291; Baudicour (Gérard) 4; Wildenstein 30

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James A. Bergquist
Accession Year
2007
Object Number
2007.71
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 1988), cat. 244, pp. 493-494, repr. [not Harvard Impression; related bibliography]
  • Rena M. Hoisington and Perrin Stein, Sous les yeux de Fragonard: The Prints of Marguerite Gérard, Print Quarterly, Print Quarterly Publications (June 2012), vol. XXIX, no. 2, pp. 142-162, pp. 152-153, repr. as figs. 128, 130 [detail]
  • Perrin Stein, Artists and Amateurs: Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 2013), repr. as fig. 15 on p. 36 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]

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