Jean-Honor Fragonard (1732-1806)
Jean-Honor Fragonard (1732-1806)

Two studies of a cat

Details
Jean-Honor Fragonard (1732-1806)
Fragonard, J.-H.
Two studies of a cat
red chalk, watermark crown (1) and watermark proprietary (2)
6 x 6.1/8 in. (166 x 156 mm.) and 4 x 6 in. (100 x 164 mm.) (2)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Paris, 30 March 1874, lot 74.
Baron H. de Schwiter.
Anon. sale, Paris, 14 June 1948, lot 5.
Literature
A. Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessin de Jean-Honor Fragonard, Paris, 1970, III, no. 1331-2.

Lot Essay

The attribution was kindly confirmed by Eunice Williams.
One of the two drawings could be a first idea for the picture L'ducation fait tout in the Sao Paulo Museum of Art exhibited at the Grand Palais, Paris, Fragonard, 1987, no. 266. The picture shows two dogs wearing clothes standing on their hind legs, directed by an apprentice school mistress. Another composition with a cat wearing clothes is the Chat emmaillot, known through a print and a drawing, where the little boy is rocking a cat, Paris, op. cit., no. 239 and fig. 1.