PROPERTY FROM THE DESCENDENTS OF WILLIAM H. CROCKER (LOTS 38, 45, 47-53, 56, 71 AND 89)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)

Saint Anne teaching the young Virgin to read, after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

細節

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)
Saint Anne teaching the young Virgin to read, after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
black chalk, a reworked counterproof of a counterproof, watermark device
11½ x 7 7/8 in. (292 x 201 mm.)

來源

William H. Crocker (1861-1937), Burlingame, California; thence by descent to his son
Charles Crocker (1904-61), San Francisco; thence by descent to the present owners.

拍品專文

A reworked counterproof of a counterproof of a drawing by Fragonard after Tiepolo's 1732 altarpiece in Santa Maria della Consolazione, Venice. Fragonard's original drawing, now in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena was made in the spring of 1761 during the artist's first trip to Italy. The counterproof is in the Donation Baderou, Musée de Rouen. See A. Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Paris, 1970, II, p. 180, no. 1813, fig. 454 for the drawing, and P. Rosenberg, Panopticon italiano: un diarrio di viaggio ritrovato, 1759-1761, Rome, 1986, no. 214 for the counterproof.
We are grateful to Eunice Williams for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.