JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)

Lot 123
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Lot 123 | JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 35 000
JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)

Ruggiero desperately seeking Angelica everywhere (Orlando furioso, XI, 6-9)

black chalk, brown and gray wash, watermark anchor in a circle

15 ½ x 10 in. (39.4 x 25.5 cm)





Provenance

Probably the artist’s family.

Hippolyte Walferdin (1795-1880), Paris; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12-16 April 1880, lot 228.

Louis Roederer (1845-1880), Reims; by descent to his nephew

Léon Olry-Roederer (1870-1932), Reims and Paris.

with Thos. Agnew and Sons, London 1922; acquired en bloc by

Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia, until 1952; acquired from his estate by

John Fleming (1910-1987), New York and Larchmont; sold in 1955 to an

American private collector.

with Thos. Agnew and Sons, London.



Literature

E. Mongan, P. Hofer and J. Seznec, Fragonard. Drawings for Ariosto, London, 1945, p. 70, plate 71.

M.T. Caracciolo, ‘Lectures de l’Arioste au XVIIIe siècle: du livre illustré au cycle peint’ Gazette des Beaux-Arts, CXXXVI, sixth period, CXXIII, no. 1502, March, 1994, p. 144, fig. 33.

M.-A. Dupuy-Vachey, Fragonard et le Roland Furieux, Paris, 2003, p. 222, no. 97, ill.



Exhibited

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Splendor and Elegance. European Decorative Arts and Drawings from the Horace Wood Brock Collection, 2009, no. 84, ill. (essay by C. S. Ackley).
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