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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2007.153
People
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806 Paris)
Title
Market Scene
Other Titles
Former Title: Scene of Village Life
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1787
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/320177

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
18 x 22.8 cm (7 1/16 x 9 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Close to Churchill 480
  • inscription: none

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private collection, France; Salamander Fine Arts, London; Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of David M. Leventhal, Virgilia Pancoast Klein, Irvin and Rebekah Taube, the Marian H. Phinney Fund, gift of Louis W. Black, by exchange, and gift of Sabatino Abate, Jr., by exchange, inv. no. 2007.153

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of David M. Leventhal, Virgilia Pancoast Klein, Irvin and Rebekah Taube, the Marian H. Phinney Fund, gift of Louis W. Black, by exchange, and gift of Sabatino Abate, Jr., by exchange
Accession Year
2007
Object Number
2007.153
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Harvard Art Museum, Harvard Art Museum Annual Report, ed. Thomas W. Lentz (Cambridge, 2007-2008), pp. 12-13
  • Eunice Williams, "Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Two Drawings from the 1780s in the Fogg", Master Drawings, Master Drawings Association (New York, 2015), vol. 53, no. 4, Winter, pp. 503-506, pp. 503, 505, 506-n.3
  • 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. 91, repr.

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