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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1954.106
People
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French (Grasse 1732 - 1806
Paris)
Title
The Servant Girls' Dormitory
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Servant Girls Preparing for Bed
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Original Language Title: Le coucher des ouvrières
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1770
Culture
French
Physical Descriptions
Medium
Brown wash (unfiltered bistre) over graphite on cream
antique laid paper, framing lines in brown ink
Dimensions
24 x 36.8 cm (9 7/16 x 14 1/2 in.)
frame: 46.5 x 58.9 x 6 cm (18 5/16 x 23 3/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
watermark: D & C Blauw
collector's mark: lower right, black ink: Gabriel Huquier
(L.1285)
Provenance
After Huquier, the following provenance is for this
drawing and/or the other version of this composition,
now in a private Parisian collection: Gabriel Huquier,
Paris (his mark, L.1285, lower right); possibly Louis
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Varanchan de Saint-Geniès, Paris (his sale, Paris,
Paillet—Chariot, 29-31 December 1777, lot 63); possibly
Peter Adolf Hall, Paris (his collection inventory, 10 May
1778—see Villot 1867, p. 77); possibly Erik Magnus,
Baron Staël von Holstein, Paris and Poligny (perhaps a
gift from Hall) (1); possibly Emmanuel de Ghendt, Paris
(his sale, Paris, Basan—Guilleaumon, 15-22 November
1779, lot 261); possibly Chevalier Charles-François
Mesnard de la Claye, called Mesnard de Clesne, Paris
(his sale, Paris, Paillet—Boileau, 4 December 1786, lot
114); possibly Étienne-Laurent-Joseph-Hippolyte Boyer
de Fonscolombe or Fons Colombe, Aix-en-Provence
(his sale, Paris, Lebrun—Le Jeune, 13 December 1790,
lot 116); possibly Hubert Robert, Paris (his sale, Paris,
Paillet—Olivier, 5 April 1809, part of lot 165); possibly
Destaisnières, Paris? (his sale, Paris, Laneuville—Haize,
16 November 1806, lot 29); possibly Vivant-Jean (Bon)
Brunet-Denon, Paris and Châtenoy-en-Bresse (his sale,
Paris, Defer and Roussel—Bonnefons, 2 February 1846,
lot 245); possibly Baron A. Saint, Paris? (his sale, Paris,
Defer—Bonnefons, his sale, Paris, 4-11 or 30 May 1846,
lot 15); Émile Norblin, Paris (his sale, Paris, 16-17 March
1860, lot 56); possibly Hippolyte Walferdin, Paris (his
sale, Paris, Drouot—Escribe, 12-16 April 1880, lot 213);
Etienne-François Haro, Paris (2); Galerie Wildenstein
(3); David David-Weill, Paris; Galerie Wildenstein;
Charles E. Dunlap, New York and Newport; Harvard Art
Museums/ Fogg, Gift of Charles E. Dunlap, inv. no.
1954.106
(1) See New York 1959, cat. no. 46, pp. 50-51.
(2) Acquired at the Walferdin sale, according to the
Drouot—Escribe sale catalogue.
(3) Traditionally, Camille Groult is cited as the owner of
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the drawing before Galerie Wildenstein procures it for
the first time. However, based on caption information in
a contemporary publication by Georges Grappe, the
Groult drawing was the second known version of the
Fragonard composition (see Grappe, H. Fragonard:
peinture de l'amour au XVIIIe siècle, vol. 2, 1913, p. 74,
repr.).
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles E.
Dunlap
Accession Year
1954
Object Number
1954.106
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
Publication History
Bonnefons de Lavialle, Catalogue d'une belle collection
de tableaux anciens et modernes, principalement de
maîtres français aux 18e et 19e siècles Watteau,
Chardin, Fragonard, Greuze, Prudhon, etc., exh. cat.,
Bonnefons de Lavialle (Paris, 1846), cat. no. 15, p. 8
Frédéric Villot, Hall: célèbre miniaturiste du XVIIIe
siècle sa vie, ses œuvres, sa correspondance:
observations sur la technique de la miniature en France
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et en Angleterre, Libraire française et étrangère (Paris,
1867), p. 77
Louis Clément de Ris, Les amateurs d'autrefois, E. Plon
et cie (Paris, 1877), p .450
Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt, L'art du
dix-huitième siècle, A. Quantin (Paris, 1880-1882), vol.
2, p. 373
Baron Roger Portalis, Honoré Fragonard, sa vie et son
oeuvre, J. Rothschild (Paris, 1889), vol. 1, p. 66, vol. 2,
pp. 194, 221-22, 297
Félix Naquet, Fragonard, Librairie de l'Art (Paris, 1890),
pp. 28, 57
Lady Emilia Francis Strong Dilke, French Painters of the
XVIIIth Century, George Bell and Sons, Ltd. (London,
1899), p. 67
Virgile Josz, Fragonard: moeurs du XVIIIe siècle,
Société dv Mercvre de France (Paris, 1901), pp. 110, 241
Camille Mauclair, Fragonard, Henri Laurens (Paris,
1904), pp. 24, 91
Armand Dayot, Fragonard, L'Art et les Artistes (Paris,
1907), pp. 141-58, p. 150
Georges Grappe, H. Fragonard; peinture de l'amour au
XVIIIe siècle, H. Piazza (Paris, 1913), vol. 2, p. 74, repr.
Georges Wildenstein, Exposition d'oeuvres de J.-H.
Fragonard, exh. cat., Presses de Frazier-Soye (Paris,
1921), cat. no. 159, p. 48
Gabriel Henriot, Collection David-Weill, Braun (Paris,
1926-1928), vol. 3, p. 146
François Boucher, L'exposition de la vie Parisienne au
XVIIIe siècle au Musée Carnavalet, Gazette des Beaux-
Arts (Paris, 1928), pp. 204-205, repr.
Alfred M. Frankfurter, Draftsmen of the Dix-Huitième:
Pastels and Watercolors from the David-Weill
Collection, Art News, Artnews Associates (New York,
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1938), no. 37, pp. 11-12, 24, 28, p. 12, repr.
Jean Robiquet, La femme dans la peinture française,
XVe-XXe siècle, Les Éditions nationales (Paris, 1938), p.
125, repr.
Henri Algoud, Fragonard, Les Documents d'Art
(Monaco, 1941), p. 17, repr.
Louis Réau, Fragonard: sa vie et son oeuvre, Elsevier
(Brussels, 1956), p. 197
Alexandre Ananoff, Comment dessinait Fragonard,
Jardin des Arts, Éditions Tallandier (Paris, 1957), no.
33, pp. 515-22, p. 517, repr.
Agnes Mongan et al., De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins
français des collections américaines, exh. cat., Musée
de l'Orangerie (Paris, 1958), cat. no. 46, n.p., repr. as pl.
66
Agnes Mongan et al., Van Clouet tot Matisse:
tentoonstelling van franse tekeningen uit amerikaanse
collecties, exh. cat., Museum Boymans (Rotterdam,
1958), cat. no. 46, pp. 52-53, repr. as pl. 59
Agnes Mongan et al., French Drawings from American
Collections: Clouet to Matisse, exh. cat., The
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1959), cat. no.
46, pp. 50-51, pl. 59, repr.
Alexandre Ananoff, L'oeuvre dessiné de Jean-Honoré
Fragonard (1732-1806): catalogue raisonné, F. de
Nobele (Paris, 1961 - 1970), vol. 4, cat. no. 1988, p. 36
Jean Starobinski, The Invention of Liberty: 1700-1789,
Skira (Geneva, 1964), pp. 120-21, 125
Henri Mitterand, Émile Zola: Œuvres completes, Cercle
du Livre Précieux (Paris, 1966-1969), vol. 9, pp. 930,
1208, repr.
Jean Rousselot, La femme: De la Préhistoire à nos
jours, P. Amiot (Paris, 1968), p. 223
Pierre Mazars, Fragonard's Universe, ed. Henri Screpel,
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Barron's (New York, 1971), p. 52, repr.
Eunice Williams, Drawings by Fragonard in North
American Collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art
(Washington, D.C., 1978), cat. no. 22, pp. 72-73, repr.
Jean Montague Massengale, "Review: Drawings by
Fragonard in North American Collections", The
Burlington Magazine, The Burlington Magazine
Publications, Ltd. (London, 1979), vol. 121, no. 913, pp.
270, 275, repr. as fig. 99
Marianne Roland Michel, "Fragonard et le dessin",
Connaissance des Arts (Paris, 1987), pp. 28-38, p. 34
Pierre Cabanne, Fragonard, Somogy (Paris, 1987), pp.
77, 153
Pierre Rosenberg, Fragonard, exh. cat., Metropolitan
Museum of Art / Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Paris, 19871988), cat. no. 113, pp. 238-39, repr.
Jean-Jacques Lévêque, La vie et l'œuvre de Jean-
Honoré Fragonard, ACR Édition (Paris, 1987), p. 211,
repr.
Eunice Williams, "Gens, Honorez Fragonard!" Works
from the Collections of Harvard University and Harvard
Friends, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums
(Cambridge, MA, 1993), no. 9
Marianne Roland Michel, "On Some Collectors of
Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in the United
States", Mastery & Elegance: Two Centuries of French
Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz , ed.
Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard University Art Museums
(Cambridge, MA, 1998), pp. 53-75, pp. 60-61, repr.
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), cat. no. 8, p. 8
Jean-Pierre Cuzin and Dimitri Salmon, Fragonard:
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regards croisés, Editions Mengès (2007), pp. 103, 204,
229 n. 105, 234 n. 86
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., Harvard Art Museum/
Handbook, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA,
2008), p. 117, repr.
Sophie Chaveau, Fragonard, l'invention du bonheur,
Gallimard (Paris, 2013), p. 207
Manuela Fidalgo, Drawings and Watercolours in the
Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, exh. cat., Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, 2014), under cat. no.
16, p. 100, repr. as fig.16.1
Marie-Anne Dupuy-Vachey, Mary D. Sheriff, and
Juliette Trey, Fragonard amoureux: Galant et libertin,
ed. Guillaume Faroult, Réunion des musées nationaux
Grand Palais des Champs-Elysées (Paris, 2015), cat.
no. 47, pp. 44, 62-63, 154, 156-57, fig. 26, repr.
Exhibition History
Exposition d'oeuvres de J.-H. Fragonard, Musée des
Arts Decoratifs, Paris, 06/07/1921 - 07/10/1921
La vie parisienne au XVIIIe siecle, Musée Carnavalet,
03/20/1928 - 04/30/1928
French Drawings from American Collections: Clouet to
Matisse, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 07/31/1958 09/28/1958; Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 10/24/1958 01/02/1959; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, 02/03/1959 - 03/15/1959
Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections,
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 11/19/1978 01/21/1979; Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge, 02/16/1979 - 04/01/1979; The
Frick Collection, New York, 04/20/1979 - 06/03/1979
Fragonard, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais,
09/24/1987 - 01/04/1988; The Metropolitan Museum of
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Art, 02/02/1988 - 05/08/1988
"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
HAA 271x The Origins of Modernity: The "New" 18th
Century Rotation #2: Large Niche (S426A) Spring 2011,
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum,
Cambridge, 03/11/2011 - 06/18/2011
Fragonard amoureux: Galant et libertin, Musée du
Luxembourg, Paris, 09/16/2015 - 01/24/2016
This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff
but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently
revised and enhanced. For more information please
contact the Division of European and American Art at
[email protected]
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