ID 991571
Lot 72 | JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 40 000
The broken strap (recto); A sketch for the young woman falling off a donkey (verso)
graphite, brown wash, pen and black ink (recto); graphite (verso); watermark fleur de Lys
24.3 x 37.7 cm (9 5/8 x 14 7/8 in.)
Provenance
François Georges Marechal, marquis de Bièvre (1747-1789); Paris, 10 March 1790, lot 29.
Vicomte Beuret, Château de Dampierre, Aube; Paris, 25 November 1924, lot 17 (40,000 francs to David-Weill).
David David-Weill (1871-1952), Neuilly-sur-Seine; Sotheby’s, London, 10 June 1959, lot 82.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 9 July 2014, lot 82.
Literature
G. Henriot, Collection David Weill, Paris, 1928, III, p. 185, ill.
L. Réau, Fragonard. Sa vie et son œuvre, Brussels, 1956, p. 204.
A. Ananoff, L'Œuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Paris 1961, I, no. 98, fig. 44.
P. Rosenberg, Fragonard, exhib. cat., Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987-1988, pp. 176-177, under no. 82, fig. 4 (as whereabouts unknown).
M.-A. Dupuy-Vachey in Fragonard. Drawing Triumphant. Works from New York Collections, exhib. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017, p. 151, under no. 40, fig. 92.
| Artist: | Jean Honore Fragonard (1732 - 1806) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Artist: | Jean Honore Fragonard (1732 - 1806) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Address of auction |
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