PROPERTY FROM A SWISS PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOTS 23, 60, 73, 91, 131, 142, 143, 146 AND 151)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)

Cypresses by a fence with a statue on a pedestal nearby

Details

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)
Cypresses by a fence with a statue on a pedestal nearby
black chalk
9¼ x 7 1/8 in. (235 x 181 mm.)

Provenance

M. Marignane (L. 1872).
Padisson.
With O. Wertheimer, 1944.

Literature

A. Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessiné de Fragonard, IV, Paris, 1970, no. 2385, fig. 600.

Exhibited

Berne, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Fragonard, 1954, no. 69 (as Groupe d'arbres dans un parc).

Lot Essay

Most likely sketched on site during the artist's second trip to Italy 1773-74. A comparable grouping of cypresses with a fence and a statue on a pedestal can be seen in a fully developed wash drawing from the same period entitled Roman park with cypresses in the Albertina, Vienna (inv. 12737); (A. Ananoff, op. cit. p. 105, no. 2216, fig. 583).
We are grateful to Eunice Williams for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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