Directly following his study at the French Academy in Rome, Fragonard traveled in Italy making sketches after Italian artworks for the abbé de Saint-Non, who later had them etched in reverse in his "Recueil de Griffonis." Here Fragonard copied frescoes painted by Annibale and Agostino Carracci over fireplaces in adjacent rooms in the Palazzo Sampieri-Talon, Bologna. The attributions recorded in Fragonard's inscriptions have been reversed by modern scholarship.
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Artist: After Annibale Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1560–1609 Rome)
Artist: After Agostino Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1557–1602 Parma)
Date:1761
Medium:Black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions:8 1/16 x 11 9/16 in. (20.4 x 29.3 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Paul Moore, 1960
Object Number:60.53
Inscription: At lower left, in black chalk, "augustin Carrache"; at lower center, in black chalk, "Palais Sampieri/Bologna"; at lower right, in black chalk, "Annibal Carrache"
Mrs. Paul Moore
Dayton Art Institute. "French Artists in Italy, 1600-1900," October 15, 1971–November 28, 1971.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," January 6–April 13, 1997.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," April 10–July 9, 2006.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant," October 6, 2016–January 8, 2017.
Bean and Turcic 1986.111, Ananoff vol. 2, no. 1052 and Ananoff vol. 3, pg. 335 (called Hercule et Jupiter)
Baron Roger Portalis Honoré Fragonard, sa vie et son oeuvre. vol. 2, Paris, 1889, p. 301.
"Ninetieth Annual Report of the Trustees, for the Fiscal Year 1959-1960." in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, n.s. vol. 19, no. 2, New York, October 1960, p. 35.
Alexandre Ananoff L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806). Catalogue raisonné. 3, Paris, 1968, p. 335.
Jane van Nuis Cahill French Artists in Italy, 1600-1900. Exh. cat. The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH. Dayton, Ohio, 1971, cat. no. 16, fig. no. 16, p. 12, ill.
Eunice Williams Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections. Washington and Cambridge, MA, 1979, cat. no. 11, pp. 48-49, ill.
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th-18th Century French Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1986, cat. no. 111, pp. 107-08, ill.
Pierre Rosenberg, Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée Saint-Non, Fragonard. Panopticon italiano. Un diario di viaggio ritrovato, 1759-1761. Rome, 1986, cat. no. 263, pp. 81, 82, 265, 267, and 398, ill.
Pierre Rosenberg, Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée Saint-Non, Fragonard, Panopticon Italiano: Un diario di viaggio ritrovato 1759-1761. Rome, 2000, cat. no. 263, fig. no. 1, pp. 81, 398, ill.
Perrin Stein, Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Eunice Williams, Kelsey Brosnan Fragonard--Drawing Triumphant. New York, 2016, cat. no. 10, 94-95, ill.
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