Lot Essay
Based on the painting in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, No. 101, executed between 1765 and 1772
Details
Circle of JEAN HONORÉ FRAGONARD (1732-1806)
The Bathers
oil on canvas
15¼ x 18¼ inches (38.7 x 46.4cm.)
The Bathers
oil on canvas
15¼ x 18¼ inches (38.7 x 46.4cm.)
Provenance
Delacques-Lemonnier, Paris
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, New York, March 22, 1984, lot 75
with Gallery Janet
Anon. Sale, Sotheby's, New York, March 22, 1984, lot 75
with Gallery Janet
Literature
P. Rosenberg, in the exhibition catalogue, Fragonard, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987-8, fig. 2, p. 164, identified erroneously as the copy after Fragonard once in the collection of J. M. Jules Strauss which was offered for sale in Paris on March 7, 1961 as lot 15.
Exhibited
Liège, Grande Saison Internationale de l'Eau /Retrospective d'art, 1939, pp. 42-3, no. 70 as by Fragonard
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