JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)

Lot 44
06.07.2021 10:00UTC +00:00
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ID 587661
Lot 44 | JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)
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£ 200 000 – 300 000
JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)

A young girl seated in an interior, leaning against a pillow (‘La Jeune malade’)

signed (?) ‘fragonard’ (lower right), and with inscription ‘fragonard fecit’ (lower left on the old mount)

red chalk

13 x 9 in. (32.9 x 22.8 cm)







Provenance

Louis-Auguste, Baron de Schwiter (1805-1889), Paris (L. 1768); Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 20-21 April 1883, lot 38 (1600 francs).

John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929), London (L. 1508); Sotheby's, London, 27-29 May 1935, lot 276 (£268).

with Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, 1952; where acquired by Sir Clifford Curzon (1907-1982) and Lady Curzon, née Lucille Wallace (1898-1977); then by descent.





Literature

R. Portalis, Honoré Fragonard. Sa Vie et son œuvre, Paris, 1889, p. 306.

Drawings by François Boucher, Jean Honoré Fragonard, and Antoine Watteau in the collection of J.P.H., London, 1900, p. 41, no. 5, ill.

F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d’estampes […], Amsterdam, 1921, p. 318, under no. 1768.

A. Ananoff, L’Œuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806). Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1961-1970, I, no. 182, II, p. 301, fig. 348, IV, p 350.

P. Hattis, Four Centuries of French Drawings in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1977, p. 93, under no. 53.

E. Williams, Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections, exhib. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art and Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, 1978-1979, p. 138, under no. 55.





Exhibited

London, Grafton Galleries, A Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings in the National Loan Exhibition in Aid of National Gallery Funds Held in the Grafton Galleries, 1909-1910, p. 171, no. 93.
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