Jean-Honor Fragonard (1732-1806)

A Greek woman in profile to the left, holding a bag

Details

Jean-Honor Fragonard (1732-1806)
Fragonard, J.-H.
A Greek woman in profile to the left, holding a bag
black chalk, brown wash
12 x 8 in. (310 x 204 mm.)

Provenance

M. de Varanchan de Saint-Genis; Paris, Htel d'Aligre, 29-31 December 1777, lot 59.
with Matthiesen, London.
with Cailleux, Paris.
Private Collection, Paris.

Literature

Baron R. Portalis, Fragonard, Paris, 1889, p. 306.
le dessin franais au XVIIIe sicle, Lausanne, 1952, pp. 83 and 174.
L. Rau, Fragonard, Brussels, 1956, p. 216.
A. Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessin de J.-H. Fragonard, Paris, 1961, I, no. 158; II, fig. 344.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Cailleux, Le dessin franais de Watteau Prud'hon, 1951, no. 182.
Bern, Muse des Beaux-Arts, Fragonard, 1954, no. 114.

Lot Essay

The attribution was kindly confirmed by Eunice Williams, pointing out that the treatment of the hands is characteristic of Fragonard's. A drawing with similar hands, dated 1774, is in Frankfurt exhibited at the Grand Palais, Paris, Fragonard, 1987, no. 191.