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Arbor with Two Children (Le Nid d'Armour)

Jean Honoré Fragonard · 1760

Provenance

Ownership history

Anonymous sale, May 1884, lot 63, to Clément [according to Ananoff 1963]. Alfred Beurdeley, to March 1905 [Lugt 421]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-15 March 1905, Beurdeley sale, lot 72, to Droz for 2.050 fr. [according to Ananoff 1963]. Camille Groult (died 1908) [according to Ananoff]. Private collector [according to Ananoff 1963]. Sold, Palais Galliera, Paris, 9-11 April 1962, Anonymous sale, lot 33, to William Schab and Regina Slatkin, New York, for 18.000 fr. [according to Ananoff 1963]; sold to the Art Institute, 1962.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 57, pl. XIX.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 98-99, cat. 49 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, pp. 64-65, cat. 57 (ill.).
Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 16 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 40-41, cat. 15 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1985-1986.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Hubert Robert et Fragonard à Rome;" traveled to The Villa Medici, Rome, December 6, 1990-February 24, 1991.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

Literature

Alexandre Ananoff, L'Oeuvre Dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard (Paris, 1961), no. 959 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, "Three Drawings by Fragonard," The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly, 56 (Winter 1962-1963), pp. 68-71 (ill.).
Curtis Baer, Landscape Drawings (New York, 1973), no. 106 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Eighteenth Century in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1978), no. 1D10.
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, "Fragonard," September 24, 1987-January 4, 1988, pp. 65-66, fig. 18 (ill.), cat. by Pierre Rosenberg; traveled to New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2-May 8, 1988.
Sophie Raux, Catalogue Des Dessins Français Du Xviiie Siècle: De Claude Gillot À Hubert Robert: Palais Des Beaux-Arts, Lille, (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1995), p. 199, Fig. 79a (ill.) [As: anonymous]
Pierre Rosenberg, From Drawing to Painting: Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, David, and Ingres (Princeton, N.J., 2000), fig. 143 (ill.), pp. 113, 115 [as: anonymous]

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