ID 1126232
Lot 67 | JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)
Estimate value
$ 500 000 – 700 000
La Gimblette (The Ring Biscuit)
oil on canvas
28 ½ x 35 3⁄16 in. (72.4 x 91 cm.)
Provenance
Collection G. Mühlbacher (d. 1906); his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, 13-15 May 1907, lot 23, as Honoré Fragonard (sold 31,500 francs à M. Pauline (?) according to a note in the Documentation of Louvre Paintings).
Anonymous sale; Palais des Congrès, Versailles, (Me Martin), 23 February 1969, lot 25, as Attributed to Fragonard.
Anonymous sale; Palais Galliera, Paris (Mes Loudmer & Poulain), 4 March 1975, lot 33, as Attributed to Fragonard.
Anonymous sale; Drouot Richelieu, Paris, (Mes Rieunier, Bailly-Pommery & Fillaire), 5 February 2001, lot 2, as 'école française du XVIIIe siècle, suiveur de Jean Honoré Fragonard'.
Private collection, Europe, from where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
L. Reau, Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris, 1956, p. 159.
J.-P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Life and Work. Complete Catalogue of the Oil Paintings, New York, 1988, p. 314, under no. 283, as 'apparently a copy'.
M. Roland Michel, Aspects de Fragonard, Peintures-Dessins-Estampes, Paris, 1987, under cat. no. 64.
P. Rosenberg, ed., Fragonard, exhibition catalogue, Paris and New York, 1987-88, under cat. 110, pp. 232, fig. 5 (entry by P. Rosenberg).
P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris, 1989, p. 99, no. 263 A, illustrated.
| Artist: | Jean Honore Fragonard (1732 - 1806) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Genre art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Jean Honore Fragonard (1732 - 1806) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Genre: | Genre art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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