Composition Study; verso: Man in Profile and Woman in an Archway
c. 1758
Artists
Dimensions
24.3 x 16.5 cm (9 9/16 x 6 1/2 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
View MoreRed and brown chalk on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper with blue paper adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchModern wove paper printed and annotated in black ink, attached to a sheet of modern wove paper, with old label from Johns Hopkins University attached to right edge.
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on off-white antique laid paper, adhered to gray antique laid paper
18th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash over traces of black chalk on off-white antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
18th centuryFrenchGraphite on cream antique laid paper
17th-18th centuryFrenchGraphite on off-white laid paper
18th centuryFrenchGray wash over graphite on cream antique laid paper; verso: brown wash over graphite
18th centuryFrenchRed chalk and graphite with touches of white gouache, and guidelines in graphite on cream antique laid paper, laid down on cream antique laid paper, with blue antique laid paper border adhered to face
18th centuryFrenchBlack chalk on beige laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBrown ink and brown wash on cream antique laid paper
18th-19th centuryFrenchBlack ink over graphite on discolored white paper
18th centuryFrench