Allegory of Justice

Details

FRENCH SCHOOL, 18TH CENTURY
Allegory of Justice
graphite and black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic on laid paper
12 x 24 ¼ in. (30.4 x 61.5 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 June 1959, lot 88 (as attributed to Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)).
with Herbert N. Bier, London (as Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)).
with Julius Böhler, Munich, by 1961 ((as Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)).
with Luigi Grassi, Florence, where acquired by Elizabeth Böthlingk von Buch, and by descent to the present collection.

Literature

A. Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), Paris, 1963, II, p 152, no. 993, fig. 268, (as Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806)).

Exhibited

Munich, Julius Böhler, 1961, no. 24.

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

The present subject is one visited frequently by a wide range of French artists of the 18^th Century. Previously attributed to Jean-Honoré Fragonard, it has been suggested that the present watercolour may be by Gabriel Francois Doyen (1726-1806).

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