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Materials:
oil on canvas
Size Notes:
47 x 37.5
Description:
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Exhibited:
Paris, Champs de Mars, Exposition des arts au dbut du sicle,1891, no. 367;Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, and Kyoto, Municipal Museum,Fragonard, 18 March 11 May 1980 and24 May 29 June 1980, no. 81;New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art,Fragonard, 2February 8 May 1988, no. 283A;New York, Colnaghi, 1789 French Art During the Revolution, OctoberNovember 1989, no. 23;Williamstown, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, andLos Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, Consuming Passion: Fragonards Allegories of Love, 28 October 2007 21 January 2008 and 12 February 4 May 2008.
Literature:
G. Bourcard,Catalogue de dessins, gouaches, estampes, tableaux du XVIIIe sicle,Paris 1893, p. 190 (as a sketch);P. de Nolhac,J.-H. Fragonard, Paris 1906, p. 116 (as a sketch);G. Wildenstein,The Paintings of Fragonard, London 1960, pp. 28, 308,no. 487,reproduced fig. 200 (as a sketch);Wallace Collection Catalogues: Pictures and Drawings, London 1968, p. 117;D. Wildenstein and G. Mandel,Lopera completa di Fragonard, Milan 1972, p. 109, no. 518, reproduced fig. 518;J. Ingamells,The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Pictures, III: French before 1815,London 1985, p. 155 (as a sketch for the Wallace Collection painting);J.-P. Cuzin,Jean-Honor Fragonard, vie et uvre-catalogue complet des peintures, Fribourgand Paris 1987, p. 332,no. 374,andp. 332, under no. 373, reproducedp. 212, fig. 263;D. Sutton, Selected Prefaces: Jean-Honor Fragonard: The World as Illusion,Apollo, CXXV, February 1987, 300, pp. 112113, reproduced p. 111, fig. 10;P. Rosenberg,Tout luvre peint de Fragonard, Paris 1989, p. 118,no. 409;C. Bailey, in1789: French Art During the Revolution,exh. cat., New York 1989, pp. 19094, no. 190, reproduced;A. Molotiu, inFragonards Allegories of Love,exh. cat., Los Angeles 2007, pp. 37, 4041,reproduced p. 40, fig. 30 (as a sketch).
Provenance:
Monsieur Brend, Paris;His sale, Paris, Chevalier, 2 December 1889, lot 4, for 4050 francs;There acquired by Marcel Bernstein (18401896), Paris;Thence by descent to Henry Bernstein (18761953), Paris;Bartholoni Collection (according to the 1959 sale catalogue below);With Wildenstein, New York;Irwin B. Laughlin (18711941), Washington, D.C.;Thence by descent to his daughter, Mrs Hubert Chanler (19141999), New York;By whom sold, London, Sothebys, 10 June 1959, lot 22, for 3500;With Wildenstein, New York;From whom acquired by the late collectorin 1988.