Portrait of Jean Honoré Fragonard

Printmaker Tiburce de Mare French
 After Jacques Antoine Marie Lemoine French
 Sitter Jean Honoré Fragonard French

Not on view

This etching is based on a portrait drawing by Jacques Antoine Marie Lemoine (1751-1824) depicting Fragonard holding a porte-crayon. The drawing dates to 1797 and was owned by Hippolyte Walferdin, the great 19th-century collector of Fragonard's drawings. The print was likely made in 1880, at the time of Walferdin's estate sale, when his collection would have been on public view.

In the drawing, Lemoine has placed fragonard against a flat backdrop. In the etching, Tiburce de Mare has added a stormy mountainous coastline.

Portrait of Jean Honoré Fragonard, Tiburce de Mare (French, Paris 1840–1900 Boissy-St-Léger), Etching, printed in brown ink

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