ID 991681
Lot 74 | JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 25 000
View of a park with figures admiring a statue
with inscription 'frago' (lower left)
black chalk, brown and grey wash, pen and brown ink framing lines
17.3 x 23.3 cm (6 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Provenance
with Galerie Cailleux, Paris, by 1981 (Rome 1760-1770. Fragonard, Hubert Robert et leurs amis, 1983, no. 22, ill.; Aspects de Fragonard. Peintures, dessins, estampes, 1987, no. 44, ill.).
Juan de Beistegui, Château de Groussay, Montfort-l’Amaury, by 1987; Sotheby’s, Château de Groussay, 2 June 1999, lot 64.
with Pandora Old Masters, New York (Recent Acquisitions, 2004, pp. 24-25, ill.).
Private collection, U.S.A.
Literature
D. Bakhuÿs, in Suite française. Dessins de la collection Jean Bonna, exhib. cat., Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, 2006-2007, p. 203, under no. 47.
Exhibited
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Three Masters of Landscape. Fragonard, Robert, and Boucher, 1981, no. 10, ill. (catalogue by P.L. Near).
Paris, Galerie Éric Coatalem, Fragonard. Collections privées, 2022, no. 39, ill. (catalogue by S. Catala)
| Artist: | Jean Honore Fragonard (1732 - 1806) |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Artist: | Jean Honore Fragonard (1732 - 1806) |
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| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Address of auction |
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