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Margaruerite Gerard Reading to Her Mother and Rosalie Fragonard
Jean Honoré Fragonard · c. 1785
Provenance
Ownership history
- Count de Choiseul-Gouffier (died 1817) [according to Ananoff 1970]. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince of Bénévent (died 1838) [according to Ananoff 1970]. Georges Plach (died 1885), Vienna, before 1865 [Lugt 1188]. A. de Gourmont [according to Joachim 1977]. Sold by Stephen Higgons, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1965.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 104-05, cat. 52 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
Literature
Published references
- Alexandre Ananoff, L’Oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré Fragonard, II (Paris, 1970), p. 73, no. 738, fig. 207.
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the 18th Century (Chicago, 1977), p. 27, no. 1E3.
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