DrawingsFrench18th century

Young Lady Seated in a Fauteuil; verso: Composition Study

c. 1758

Artists

Jean-Honoré FragonardArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brownish red and black chalk on off-white antique laid paper; verso: graphite

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

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