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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1961.165
People
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806
Paris)
Marguerite Gérard, French (1761 - 1837)
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Title
The Beloved Child
Other Titles
Original Language Title: L'Enfant Cheri
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1780-1785
Culture
French
Location
Level 2, Room 2220, European and American Art, 17th–
19th century, Rococo and Neoclassicism in the
Eighteenth Century
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Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
44 x 55 cm (17 5/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
framed: 64.5 x 74.5 cm (25 3/8 x 29 5/16 in.)
Provenance
O…sale [through Hotel de Commissaires Priseurs,
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Paris, December 16-17, 1839, lot 89, with pendant, The
First Steps]. Roger Charles Gaultier De Rigny, [sale,
through Hotel de Commissaires Priseurs, Paris, June 2,
1857, lot 39]; to Morens. Pillot sale [through Hotel des
Ventes Mobilières, Paris, December 6-8, 1859, lot 43,
listed as “Figures by Mlle. Gérard, landscape by
Fragonard"]. E. Falcke, sold; to Baron Mayer Amschel
de Rothschild, England, 1868, by descent; to Hannah
de Rothschild (1874), by descent; to the Lord Rosebery
Collection. [Wildenstein & Co., New York], sold; to
Charles E. Dunlap, St. Louis, 1952, gift; to Fogg Art
Museum, 1961.
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E.
Dunlap
Accession Year
1961
Object Number
1961.165
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Catalogue d'une belle collection de tableaux de ecoles
Italienne, Flamande et Française...proevant du cabinet
de M. O***, auct. cat., Imprimerie de Guiraudet et
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Jouaust (Paris, December 16-18, 1839), p. 15-16, lot no.
89 (with pendant)
Catalogue de tableaux anciens et modernes des écoles
italienne, espagnole, flamande et française faisant
partie de la belle collection de M. de Rigny, ancien
receveur général du département du Calvados, auct.
cat., Maulde et Renou, Imprimeurs de la Compagnie
des Commissaires-Priseurs (Paris, June 2, 1857), p. 9,
lot 39
Catalogue d'une collection de tableaux de l'école
française...après cessation de commerce de M. Pillot...
[marchand de curiosités], auct. cat. (Paris, December
6-8, 1858), p. 10, lot no. 46
Mentmore, R. & R. Clark (Edinburgh, 1884)
Highlights from the Collections of the Fogg Museum
and Harvard Alumni of St. Louis, exh. cat., City Art
Museum of St. Louis (St. Louis, MO, 1964), cat. 30
Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture from the Fogg Art
Museum, Harvard University, exh. cat., Yale University
Art Gallery (New Haven, CT, 1967)
Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art
Museum , exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo,
NY, 1967), cat. 29
Francis Haskell, "Millet in London and Paris", The
Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine
Publications, Ltd. (April 1976), Vol. 118, No. 877, pp.
252-254, p. 253
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900
in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue
including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum ,
Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA,
1990), p. 160, cat. no. 84, repr. [as "The Child's First
Drive"]
Eunice Williams, "Gens, Honorez Fragonard!" Works
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from the Collections of Harvard University and Harvard
Friends, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums
(Cambridge, MA, 1993), checklist no. 23, discussed in
unpaginated essay
Alvin L. Clark, Jr., "To Delight the Eye": French Drawings
and Paintings from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap,
brochure, Harvard University Art Museums
(Cambridge, MA, 2005), checklist no. 4, p. 11
Exhibition History
Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art
Museum , Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967
Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture from the Fogg Art
Museum, Harvard University, Yale University Art
Gallery, New Haven, 10/12/1967 - 12/03/1967
"Gens, Honorez Fragonard!", Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge, 05/15/1993 - 07/11/1993
"To Delight the Eye": French Drawings and Paintings
from the Collection of Charles E. Dunlap, Harvard
University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge, 12/17/2005 - 03/12/2006
Re-View: S424-426 Western Art from 1560 to 1900,
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum,
Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 06/18/2011
32Q: 2220 18th-19th Century, Harvard Art Museums,
Cambridge, 11/01/2014 - 04/19/2017; Harvard Art
Museums, Cambridge, 09/13/2017
Subjects and Contexts
Google Art Project
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