Name: AFTER JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)
Brand: The cavalcade
Price: 400.00 USD
Availability: InStock

AFTER JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (GRASSE 1732-1806 PARIS)
The cavalcade
with inscription ‘h. Fragonard’ (lower left)
black chalk, brush and brown wash, ink framing lines, watermark ‘DE/ M. JOHANNOT/ DANNONAY/ 1787’
13¹⁄₂ x 18 in. (34 x 43.5 cm)

with Chaulin et Cie, Paris.
M. Blaisot, Paris.
with Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Aitken (1900-1984) and Russell Barnett Aitken (1910-2002) from the above.

A. Ananoff, L’œuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Paris, 1970, IV, no. 2118, ill.
J. Baillio, The Arts of France from François I to Napoleon I, exhib. cat., New York, Wildenstein & Co., 2005-2006, p. 306, ill.
Fragonard. Drawing Triumphant, exhib. cat., New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2017, p. 284, note 1 (catalogue entry by Perrin Stein).

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The subject of this drawing is the encounter between a fashionably dressed woman on horseback and a peasant family seated under a tree. Representations of acts of benevolence, such of this one, had become popular in Fragonard’s time. A large first sketch for the composition, in black chalk, is in a private collection (Fragonard, op. cit., no. 76, ill.). Another version, in wash and watercolor, was sold at auction in Berlin in 2013 (Grisebach, Berlin, 28 November 2013, lot 313).