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Girl playing with a dog and a cat (said to be a Portrait of Marie-Madeleine Colombe)
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)
Girl playing with a dog and a cat (said to be a Portrait of Marie-Madeleine Colombe)
oil on canvas, circular
27½ in. (69.8 cm.) diam.
Girl playing with a dog and a cat (said to be a Portrait of Marie-Madeleine Colombe)
oil on canvas, circular
27½ in. (69.8 cm.) diam.
Provenance
(Probably) Marie-Catherine Riggieri (1751-1830), known as Mlle Colombe, château de Saint-Brice; sold with the château in 1805, to
M. Revanaz, who resold the château to
M. de Guy, mayor of Saint-Brice, and by descent to his son-in-law
Colonel de Mondonville, thence to his widow
Madame de Mondonville, by whom sold to
René Gimpel and the marquis de Biron, as of 1906.
with Wildenstein & Co, from whom acquired by
Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris.
Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild (1914-99), Tel Aviv.
M. Revanaz, who resold the château to
M. de Guy, mayor of Saint-Brice, and by descent to his son-in-law
Colonel de Mondonville, thence to his widow
Madame de Mondonville, by whom sold to
René Gimpel and the marquis de Biron, as of 1906.
with Wildenstein & Co, from whom acquired by
Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris.
Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild (1914-99), Tel Aviv.
Literature
P. de Nolhac, J.-H. Fragonard, 1732-1806. With a catalogue of paintings sold at auction from 1770 to 1905, by H. Pannier, Paris, 1906, illustrated between pp. 112-13.
A. Dayot, 'Fragonard', L'Art et les artistes (special issue) 5, no. 27, June-July 1907, illustrated p. 151.
A. Dayot & L. Vaillat, L'Oeuvre de J.-B.-S. Chardin et de J.-H. Fragonard, Paris, 1907, no. 92, pl. 92.
J. Stern, Mesdemoiselles Colombe, Paris, 1923, pp. 52, 167, 168 and 288-9.
L. Reau, Fragonard, Brussels, 1956, p. 177.
B. de Andia, 'Les Follies de Paris au XVIIIe siecle', Médecine de France, no. 113, 1960, p. 23, illustrated.
J. Cailleux, 'Fragonard as Painter of the Colombe Sisters', The Burlington Magazine, no. 690, supp. no. 4, September 1960, pp. 111-v, p. ii, fig. 2.
G. Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard, London, 1960, no. 410, fig. 169.
R. Gimpel, Diary of an art dealer, New York, 1966 (French edition, 1963), p. 158.
D. Wildenstein and G. Mandel, L'opera completa di Fragonard, Milan, 1972, no. 435.
D. Sutton, in the catalogue of the exhibition, Fragonard, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1980, under no. 65.
J.-P. Cuzin, Fragonard, Life and Work, New York, 1988, no. 301, p. 188, pl. 228.
P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris, 1989, no. 362.
A. Dayot, 'Fragonard', L'Art et les artistes (special issue) 5, no. 27, June-July 1907, illustrated p. 151.
A. Dayot & L. Vaillat, L'Oeuvre de J.-B.-S. Chardin et de J.-H. Fragonard, Paris, 1907, no. 92, pl. 92.
J. Stern, Mesdemoiselles Colombe, Paris, 1923, pp. 52, 167, 168 and 288-9.
L. Reau, Fragonard, Brussels, 1956, p. 177.
B. de Andia, 'Les Follies de Paris au XVIIIe siecle', Médecine de France, no. 113, 1960, p. 23, illustrated.
J. Cailleux, 'Fragonard as Painter of the Colombe Sisters', The Burlington Magazine, no. 690, supp. no. 4, September 1960, pp. 111-v, p. ii, fig. 2.
G. Wildenstein, The Paintings of Fragonard, London, 1960, no. 410, fig. 169.
R. Gimpel, Diary of an art dealer, New York, 1966 (French edition, 1963), p. 158.
D. Wildenstein and G. Mandel, L'opera completa di Fragonard, Milan, 1972, no. 435.
D. Sutton, in the catalogue of the exhibition, Fragonard, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1980, under no. 65.
J.-P. Cuzin, Fragonard, Life and Work, New York, 1988, no. 301, p. 188, pl. 228.
P. Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris, 1989, no. 362.
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, Chardin-Fragonard, 1907 (ex -catalogue)
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Les Chefs-d'oeuvre des Collections françaises retrouvés en Allemagne par la Commission de Récupération artistique et les Services alliés, 1946, no. 16, description by M. Florisoone.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fragonard, P. Rosenberg, ed., 1987-8, no. 246.
Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie, Les Chefs-d'oeuvre des Collections françaises retrouvés en Allemagne par la Commission de Récupération artistique et les Services alliés, 1946, no. 16, description by M. Florisoone.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fragonard, P. Rosenberg, ed., 1987-8, no. 246.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.