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Lot Essay
Eunice Williams confirmed the attribution and pointed out that Fragonard's prototype was Salomon de Bray's Triumphal Procession of 1649 in the central hall of the Huis ten Bosch at The Hague, which was built in the late 1640s by the widow of Prince Frederick Henry of Orange.
Fragonard copied another picture in the same hall, the Triumphal Entry of Prince Frederick Henry by Jacob Jordaens painted in 1652. That drawing, formerly in the Gros sale of 1778, is now in the Louvre, P. Rosenberg, Fragonard, exhib. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris and elsewhere, 1987, no. 83. The dates of Fragonard's time in Holland are unknown, but he probably travelled there more than once. Pierre Rosenberg, in the 1988 exhibition catalogue, suggested 1763 or 1764, and around 1772.
Fragonard copied another picture in the same hall, the Triumphal Entry of Prince Frederick Henry by Jacob Jordaens painted in 1652. That drawing, formerly in the Gros sale of 1778, is now in the Louvre, P. Rosenberg, Fragonard, exhib. cat., Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris and elsewhere, 1987, no. 83. The dates of Fragonard's time in Holland are unknown, but he probably travelled there more than once. Pierre Rosenberg, in the 1988 exhibition catalogue, suggested 1763 or 1764, and around 1772.