Follower of Jean-Honoré Fragonard

An Italianate Garden with elegant figures and putti

Details

Follower of Jean-Honoré Fragonard
An Italianate Garden with elegant figures and putti
oil on canvas
19¼ x 17 in. (48.8 x 43.2)

Provenance

François-Hippolyte Walferdin, Paris; (+), Hotel Drouot, Paris, 12 April 1880 [=1st day of sale], lot 44 [in the section of paintings by Fragonard], 'Paysage. Dans un parc, un temple; plusieurs petites figures, et dans le ciel des Amours tenant des guirlandes de fleurs. Charmant motif de decoration. 0.47 x 0.42 cm.' (1,300 F to Malinet [?]).

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Lot Essay

François-Hippolyte Walferdin (1795-1880), physicist, inventor of several thermometers and editor of Diderot (whose bust by Houdon he bequeathed to the Louvre), was one of the very first collectors of Fragonard, owning seventy-nine of his pictures, not counting miniatures, almost two hundred drawings, pastels and engravings.

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