DrawingsFrench18th century

Reverie

c. 1790

Artists

Jean-Honoré FragonardArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown and gray wash, black chalk, and traces of red chalk heightened with gum arabic(?) on cream antique laid paper prepared with gum arabic, laid down on a decorated mount

Culture

French

Century

18th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

33.8 x 24.9 cm (13 5/16 x 9 13/16 in.) framed: 55.88 x 47.94 x 6.35 cm (22 x 18 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Hippolyte Walferdin, Paris; his estate sale, Drouot (Escribe), Paris, 12-16 April 1880, lot 209, sold; to Albert Meyer, Paris; Camille Groult, Paris (by 1889); Wildenstein and Co., New York (by 1921), sold; to Charles E. Dunlap, New York, gift; to Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap, inv. no. 1955.186

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