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JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)

Lot 74
26.03.2025 15:00UTC +02:00
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Lot 74 | JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)
Estimate value
€ 5 000 – 7 000
JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)
La Crucifixion de saint André, d'après Matia Preti
localisé et daté ‘Rome 1774’ (en bas au centre)
graphite, pinceau, lavis brun
37 x 29 cm (14 ½ x 11 ½ in.)




Provenance

Marque non identifiée (L. 5819), apposée sur un morceau de papier découpé, collé au dos du montage et avec la numérotation ‘n°.23.’ à la plume et à l’encre brune.
Duc de Chabost; sa vente, Paris, 15 décembre 1787, lot 271 (‘Deux dessins d'après des tableaux de Calabrese qui sont en Italie’, 181 livres à Constantin).
M. de Silvestre ; sa vente, Paris, 28 février 1811, lot 329 (vendu avec la Prison de Saint Pierre, la Laitière et le pot au lait, l’Intérieur d’une basse-cour et une étude, figure de jeune femme).




Literature

R. Portalis, Fragonard, sa vie, son œuvre, Paris, 1889, p. 310.
M. A. Tornézy, Bergeret et Fragonard, Paris, 1895, p. 141.
J. Wilhem, Bergeret de Grancourt, Voyage d'Italie, 1773-1774, avec les dessins de Fragonard, Paris, 1948, p. 54, ill. p. 55.
A. Ananoff, L'œuvre dessinée de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), Paris, 1970, IV, n° 2576, fig. 644.




Exhibited

Paris, galerie Cailleux, Le Dessin français de Watteau à Prud'hon, avril 1951, n° 34.



Further details

JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD, THE CRUCIFIXION OF SAINT ANDRÉ, AFTER MATTIA PRETI, GRAPHITE, BRUSH, BROWN WASH, LOCATED AND DATED 1774

After a period studying at the Académie de France in Rome (1756-1761), Fragonard acted as guide for the Bergeret family on a tour of Europe between October 1773 and September 1774, which included extended travel in Italy. All the Roman stages of this journey are known thanks to the diary kept by the banker Pierre-Jacques-Onésyme Bergeret de Grancourt (1715-1785), treasurer of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis, a great art lover and patron. His entry for Thursday 9 December reads, ‘The church of Sant'Andrea della Valle. Behind the high altar, three frescoed paintings of the martyrdom and death of Saint Andrew by Calabrese. It would be worth seeing more than once, beautiful design and colour' (Wilhem, op. cit.). The present brown wash drawing copies one of the three frescoes by Mattia Preti, known as Il Calabrese, which the group so admired: The Crucifixion. The artist's two other drawings after the frescoes are The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew attached to his cross from the former Guerrand Hermès collection, which recently reappeared on the market (Sotheby's sale, Paris, 13 December 2023, lot 32) and The Entombment of Jesus offered for sale by Christie's in Paris on 22 November 2024 (lot 119, online sale).

After Italy, the group continued their journey in Northern Europe through Vienna and Prague and, in August 1774, Fragonard was once again able to copy a work by Preti, this time in Dresden. The painting in question was The Liberation of Saint Peter, now in the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Narbonne (Fragonard et le voyage en Italie 1773-1774. Les Bergeret, une famille de mécènes, exhib. cat., 2001-2002, p. 53, ill). Again, Fragonard chose to employ pen and wash in a subtle shade of brown to capture the Italian artist's work.
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