FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD, circa 1780
Details
JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD, circa 1780
A young girl wearing a blue-bordered straw hat and pink roses in her curly blond hair, a rose tucked in the white frill-bordered décolleté of her blue bodice with white muslin sleeves; rectangular -- 70 x 54 mm, gilt-metal mount within a silver frame bordered by a foliage openwork studded with markasites.
A young girl wearing a blue-bordered straw hat and pink roses in her curly blond hair, a rose tucked in the white frill-bordered décolleté of her blue bodice with white muslin sleeves; rectangular -- 70 x 54 mm, gilt-metal mount within a silver frame bordered by a foliage openwork studded with markasites.
Provenance
New York, Collection of John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913); his sale, Christie's, London, 24-27 June 1935, lot 524, sold 141.15 pounds to Walker; Lady Louise Lloyd-Jones; thence by family descent.
Literature
George C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, The Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, vol. III, London, 1907, p. 172, nr 548 (as "probably the daughter of the artist"), illustr. pl. CLXXXIII, nr 1).