Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)

Angels making music, after Francesco Solimena

Details

Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)
Angels making music, after Francesco Solimena
inscribed 'Du Solimena Eglise de S^t Paul a Naples'
black chalk, a reworked counterproof
10¾ x 6 5/8 in. (27.3 x 16.9 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 5-7 December 1974, lot 549.

Literature

P. Rosenberg and B. Brejon de Lavergnée, Panopticon italiano: un diario di viaggio ritrovato, 1759-1761, Rome, 1986, p. 340, under no. 21.

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Lot Essay

Solimena's fresco is in the church of S. Paolo Maggiore, Naples. Fragonard's drawing from which this counterproof was taken is in the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena (Inv. A. 2628; Rosenberg and Brejon de Lavergnée, op. cit., p. 340, no. 21, illus.).

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