DrawingsFrench18th century

Sketchbook from the Italian Period

c. 1759-1761

Artists

Jean-Honoré FragonardArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Marble paper-covered boards and black leather spine; thirty pages of off-white antique laid paper

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

cover: 18 x 25 cm (7 1/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, by descent?; to his heirs. Georges Huot, his great-grandson, sold; to George S. Hellman, New York, sold [through Kende Galleries, New York, April 10, 1952, lot 75]. Ira Spanierman. Martin Reymert and Gerald Norman, New York and London, sold; to Fogg Art Musuem, 1968

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