DrawingsFrench18th century

The Happy Family

late 1770s

Artists

Jean-Honoré FragonardArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown wash over graphite, with traces of white gouache, on cream antique laid paper

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

33.4 x 45.4 cm (13 1/8 x 17 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Jacques Doucet; Madame Noël Bardac, Paris; Therese Kuhn Straus, New York, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1978, inv. no. 1978.24

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