Lot 40
Lot 40
Property from the Collection of Nina R. and Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.
JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)

Rinaldo and Ferraù part company at the fork in the road(Orlando furioso, I, 22-23)

    Price Realised USD 15,000
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    USD 15,000 - USD 25,000
    Closed: 28 Jan 2021
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    JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)

    Rinaldo and Ferraù part company at the fork in the road(Orlando furioso, I, 22-23)

    Price Realised USD 15,000
    Closed: 28 Jan 2021
    Price Realised USD 15,000
    Closed: 28 Jan 2021
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    JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)
    Rinaldo and Ferraù part company at the fork in the road(Orlando furioso, I, 22-23)
    black chalk, brown and gray wash, watermark coat-of-arms with a star surmounted by a crown
    151⁄4 x 93⁄8 in. (38.7 x 23.7 cm)
    Provenance
    Probably the artist’s family.
    Hippolyte Walferdin (1795-1880), Paris; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12-16 April 1880, lot 228.
    Louis Roederer (1845-1880), Reims; by descent to his nephew
    Léon Olry-Roederer (1870-1932), Reims and Paris.
    with Thos. Agnew and Sons, London 1922; acquired en blocby
    Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia, until 1952; acquired from his estate by
    John Fleming (1910-1987), New York and Larchmont; sold in 1955 to an
    American private collector.
    with Thos. Agnew and Sons, London, probably sold around 2005-2006 to
    Nina R. and Arthur A. Houghton, Jr.
    Literature
    E. Mongan, P. Hofer and J. Seznec, Fragonard. Drawings for Ariosto, London, 1945, p. 61, pl. 3.
    M.-A. Dupuy-Vachey, Fragonard et le Roland Furieux, Paris, 2003, no. 6, p. 377, ill.
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