Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

細節

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)

Studies of four Heads

with inscription 'Fragonard'; black chalk, brown and gray wash, watermark fleur-de-lys
10½ x 9in. (267 x 229mm.)

來源

M. Arozarena; his sale, 29 May 1861, lot 44.
Hippolyte Walferdin; Paris, 12-16 April 1880, lot 242.
With Schuster and Halévy.
Camille Groult.
Bordeaux-Groult.
Anon. sale, Christie's, London, 13 December 1984, lot 135 (£13,000), illustrated.

出版

A. Ananoff, L'Oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Paris, 1961, I p. 85, cat. no. 144, IV, fig. 691.

拍品專文

Another sheet grouping studies of heads in a similar way is The Seven Ages of Life, in the Lauder collection, E. Williams, Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections, exhib. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979, no. 41, illustrated. The format of the present drawing recalls that of a group of chalk drawings in the Louvre, A. Ananoff, op. cit., nos. 147, 148, 150, figs. 62-4.
The smooth and fluent handling of the wash of the Lauder drawing suggets a dating to the 1770s, according to Eunice Williams.