The Rape of Ganymede, after Michelangelo

Details

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)
The Rape of Ganymede, after Michelangelo
inscribed 'Michelange. Palais Justiniani'
black chalk
7 x 8½ in. (17.6 x 21.5 cm.)

Provenance

Dr James Hasson; Christie's, London, 24 March 1961, lot 20 (190 gns. to Agnew).

Literature

P. Rosenberg, Saint-Non - Fragonard. Panopticon italiano. Un diario di viaggio ritrovato 1759-1761, Rome, 1986 (2nd ed. 2000), no. 107.

Exhibited

'Brussels, 1937' (according to the 1961 catalogue).

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Lot Essay

A copy made by Fragonard in 1761 while he was in Rome after a painted version of Michelangelo's black chalk drawing, The Rape of Ganymede, which was formerly in the Giustiniani Collection. Jacques-Louis David copied the same picture about fifteen years later (P. Rosenberg and L.-A. Prat, Jacques-Louis David 1748-1825. Catalogue raisonné des dessins, Milan, 2002, vol. I, no. 1047).

We are grateful to Marie-Anne Dupuy who has confirmed the attribution to Fragonard on the basis of a photograph.

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