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Portrait of a Young Woman, said to be Gabrielle de Caraman, Marquise de la Fare

Jean Honoré Fragonard  (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris)

Date:
later 1770s
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Oval, 31 3/4 x 25 in. (80.6 x 63.5 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Bequest of Margaret V. Haggin, 1965
Accession Number:
65.226

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 529

  • Catalogue Entry

    According to Wildenstein, who sold the picture in 1927, this portrait came from the de la Fare family. It is said to represent Gabrielle Françoise Victoire de Riquet de Caraman, who in 1775 married Joseph Gabriel Henri de la Fare (1749–1786), marquis de la Fare Vénéjan. Described as a brigadier in the king’s armies, he was also a poet, and descended from a distinguished and ancient family from Languedoc in the south of France. The picture is thinly painted with liquid strokes in a range of soft golden and rosy hues. It is close, in style and in the use of washes of color, to Young Woman Reading and may date to the later 1770s, several years after the sitter’s marriage, if indeed it is she.

    [2012]

  • Provenance

    ?de la Fare family; [Wildenstein, Paris and New York, until 1927; sold to Mrs. Haggin]; Mrs. James B. Haggin, New York (1927–d. 1965)

  • Exhibition History

    New York. World's Fair. "Masterpieces of Art: European & American Paintings, 1500–1900," May–October 1940, no. 202 (lent by Mrs. J. B. Haggin, New York).

    New York. Parke-Bernet. "French and English Art Treasures of the XVIII Century," December 20–30, 1942, no. 18 (lent by Mrs. James B. Haggin).

    St. Petersburg [Florida]. Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Fla.. "Fragonard & His Friends: Changing Ideals in Eighteenth Century Art," November 20, 1982–February 6, 1983, no. 14.

  • References

    Esther Singleton. Old World Masters in New World Collections. New York, 1929, p. 320, as "La Marquise de la Fare".

    Georges Wildenstein. The Paintings of Fragonard, Complete Edition. London, 1960, pp. 287–88, no. 409, fig. 171, as "Portrait said to be Madame de la Fare . . . Gabrielle-Françoise-Victoire, daughter of the Comte de Caraman and of Marie-Anne de Hénin Liétard, Princesse de Chimay . . . married in 1775 to Joseph-Gabriel-Henri, comte de la Fare"; dates it 1773–76.

    Gabriele Mandel in L'opera completa di Fragonard. Milan, 1972, p. 105, no. 434, ill., as "La signora de la Fare [?]".

    Pierre Cabanne. Fragonard. Paris, 1987, p. 106, remarks that if this portrait is Madame de la Fare, it must date after 1775.

    Jean-Pierre Cuzin. Jean-Honoré Fragonard: Vie et oeuvre, catalogue complet des peintures. Fribourg, Switzerland, 1987, pp. 310–11, no. 265, ill., dates it about 1772–73?; as a young woman, called Gabrielle de Caraman, marquise de la Fare.



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