DrawingsFrench18th century

Composition Study; verso: Composition Studies

c. 1758

Artists

Jean-Honoré FragonardArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Graphite on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 16.5 x 24.3 cm (6 1/2 x 9 9/16 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

Related Artworks

Drawings

Duck Looking to the Left; verso: Two Dead Wild Ducks

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 18th century

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Fortified Entrance to Roman Hill Town

Achille Leclère, 18th-19th century

Brown wash and graphite on greenish wove paper

18th-19th centuryFrench

Drawings

Folio recto: Blank; verso: Muscovy Duck

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 18th century

Verso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Two Satyrs Observing Two Sleeping Nymphs

Charles de La Traverse, 18th century

Brown and black ink, gray and brown wash, over traces of black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper, laid down

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Standing Heron and Two Small Birds, One Perched and One in Flight; verso: blank

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 18th century

Watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Sketchbook page

Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin, c. 1776

Black chalk on cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Folio recto: Blank; verso: Two Swallows in Flight

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 18th century

Verso: watercolor and black ink over traces of graphite on cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Male Nude, Flying, His Arms Raised (Wind God)

Unidentified Artist, 18th century

Brown and white chalk on light brown antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

View of Mola di Gaeta

François Le Moyne, 1724

Black and white chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down on a decorated mount

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Young Girl Reading

François Boucher, 18th century

Black and red chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

Removing the Dead

Unidentified Artist, 18th century

Brown ink, brown and gray wash, white gouache and black and white chalk with some stumping, on light brown antique laid paper

18th centuryFrench

Drawings

The See-Saw

Hubert Robert, c. 1786

Black ink, brown wash, and watercolor over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in black ink, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue antique laid paper borders adhered to face

18th centuryFrench