Le Mari Confesseur

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

Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Brown wash over black chalk
Dimensions:
8 1/8 x 5 9/16 in. (20.6 x 14.1 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, 1974
Accession Number:
1974.356.44
  • Provenance

    Jacques Doucet (French, Paris 1853–1929 Paris)Doucet sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, May 16, 1906, lot 25; Marius Paulme ; Karl-Rudolphe-Henrich Lehmann (French, Kiel 1814–1882 Paris)Lehmann sale, Paris, Galeries Georges Petit, June 8, 1925, lot 54, repr.; Marcel Razsovich , St. Germain-en-Laye; A. & R. Ball ; Lesley and Emma Sheafer

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Ananoff 1961.2717

  • References

    Louis Réau Exposition de dessins de Fragonard. Jacques Seligmann et Fils, Paris, 1931, cat. no. 113, p. 54.

    Louis Réau Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre. Paris, 1956, p. 226.

    Alexandre Ananoff L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) Catalogue raisonné. Paris, 1961-1970, cat. no. 2717, p. 240, vol. 4.

    Marianne Roland Michel "Fragonard - Illustrator of the 'Contes' of La Fontaine" in Burlington Magazine. 112, no. 811, October 1970. London, October 1970, vi.

    Eunice Williams Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections . Washington and Cambridge, MA, 1979, cat. no. 53, pp. 134-135, ill.

    Anne L. Schroder "Master Drawings" "Fragonard et le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle dans les collections du Petit Palais". no. 4, 34, Winter 1996, p. 435.



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