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JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (Grasse 1732-1806 Paris)
‘Le Verrou’ (The bolt)
with inscription ‘fragonard’ in pen and brown ink (lower right)
red chalk, brush and brown ink, touches of pen and brown ink, pen and brown ink framing line, watermark shield with Strasbourg Lily surmounted by a crown and ‘[D] & J. C. BLAUW’
9 3/8 x 14 3/8 in. (24 x 36.5 cm.)
Provenance
Possibly anonymous collection; Paris, 2-5 May 1781, part of lot 128.
Possibly Morel collection; Paris, 19-22 April (i.e. 3 May) 1786, lot 377 (sold to Le Brun).
Possibly Jean-Baptiste-Laurent Boyer de Fonscolombe (1716-1788), Aix-en-Provence; Paris, 18-21 January 1790, part of lot 190.
Possibly Eugène Tondu; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 10-13 May 1865, lot 225.
François-Hippolyte Walferdin (1795-1880), Paris; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12-16 April 1880, lot 212, where acquired by
H.H.A. Josse; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 28-29 May 1894, lot 12 (sold to Wertheimer).
Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919), Paris (L. 421); Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-15 March 1905, lot 63 (sold to Féral).
Jules Féral (1874-1944), Paris.
Maurice-Édouard Kann (1839-1906), Paris.
Albert Meyer, Paris; by descent to his widow (?); Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 15 June 1938, lot 8; where acquired by
Léon Cotnareanu (1891-1970) and Yvonne Le Baron Coty Cotnareanu (1880-1966), Paris.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 16 January 1985, lot 149.
with Hobhouse, London.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above in 1986.
Literature
R. Portalis, Honoré Fragonard. Sa vie et son œuvre, Paris, 1889, p. 314.
L. Vaillat in L’Œuvre de J.-B.-S. Chardin et de J.-H. Fragonard, Paris, [1908], p. XX, under no. 161.
G. Grappe, La Vie et l’œuvre de J.-H. Fragonard, Paris, 1929, pl. XVIII.
S. de Ricci, Collection Albert Meyer, Paris, 1935, no. 24, ill.
A.M. Frankfurter, ‘Drawings by French masters: The Albert Meyer Collection’, The Art News, XXXIV, no. 19, 8 February 1936, p. 12.
H. Algoud, Fragonard, Monaco, 1941, pl. 81.
G. Grappe, La Vie de Jean-Honoré Fragonard Paris, 1942, pl. XIV.
J. Villain, Fragonard, Paris, 1953, pl. 23.
L. ReÌ?au, Fragonard. Sa vie et son œuvre, Brussels, 1956, p. 196.
A. Ananoff, L’Œuvre dessineÌ? de Jean-HonoreÌ? Fragonard, IV, Paris, 1970, no. 2003, 2004, fig. 550.
P. Rosenberg et I. Compin, ‘Quatre nouveaux Fragonard au Louvre (II)’, Revue du Louvre et des musées de France, XXIV, 1974, nos. 4-5, pp. 272, 275-276, fig. 13.
I. Compin and P. Rosenberg, Tableaux de Fragonard et meubles de Cressent au Musée du Louvre, exhib. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1974, under no. 22
J.-P. Cuzin, Jean-Honoré Fragonard Vie et œuvre. Catalogue complet des peintures, Fribourg, 1987, p. 179.
P. Rosenberg, Fragonard, exhib. cat., Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987-1988, p. 481, fig. 3, under no. 236.
M. Schieder, in The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard. Masterpieces of French Genre Painting, exhib. cat., Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, and Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, 2003-2004, p. 290, under nos. 83-84, ill.
G. Faroult, Jean HonoreÌ? Fragonard. Le Verrou, Paris, 2007, p. 30, fig. 18 [second edition Paris, 2015].
G. Faroult in Fragonard amoureux, galant et libertin, exhib. cat., Paris, MuseÌ?e du Luxembourg, 2015-2016, pp. 208, 210, under nos. 71-72.
M. A. Dupuy-Vachey, ‘Every Possible Combination. Between Inspiration and Finish in Fragonard’s Œuvre’, in Fragonard. Drawing Triumphant. Works from New York Collections, exhib. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016-2017, p. 25, fig. 19.
G. Faroult, L’Amour peintre. L’Imagerie érotique en France au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 2020, p. 411-412, 414, fig. 240.
Exhibited
‌Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Catalogue des dessins de l’école moderne exposés à l’École Nationale des Beaux-Arts au profit de la caisse de secours de l’association [Taylor], 1884, no. 276.
Paris, Jacques Seligmann & Fils, Exposition de dessins de Fragonard, 1931, no. 19.
‌New York, Seligmann, Rey & Co., [French and Italian drawings from the collection of Albert Meyer], 1936 (see Frankfurter, op. cit.).