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An Angel Bringing Food to a Hermit

After François Boucher French
ca. 1750–56
Not on view
In this, his first print, Fragonard demonstrates a ready facility with the etching needle, producing a composition based on a chalk drawing by his master, François Boucher. Using a variety of short and staccato lines, Fragonard evokes the rough textures of the desert, where a saint seated on the rocky ground accepts a gift from an angel. The drawing by Boucher that was his model survives today in the National Gallery of Canada (inv.6888).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: An Angel Bringing Food to a Hermit
  • Artist: Jean Honoré Fragonard (French, Grasse 1732–1806 Paris)
  • Artist: After François Boucher (French, Paris 1703–1770 Paris)
  • Date: ca. 1750–56
  • Medium: Etching
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (26 × 24.1 cm)
    Plate: 9 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (23.2 × 15.8 cm)
    Image: 8 1/2 × 5 7/8 in. (21.6 × 14.9 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
  • Object Number: 49.36.8
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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