Composition Study; verso: Composition Studies
DrawingsFrench18th century

Composition Study; verso: Composition Studies

c. 1758

Artists

Jean-Honoré FragonardArtist
Classification
Drawings
Medium
Graphite on off-white antique laid paper; verso: brown ink
Culture
French
Century
18th century
Division
European and American Art
Department
Department of Drawings

Dimensions

actual: 16.5 x 24.3 cm (6 1/2 x 9 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, by descent?; to his heirs. Georges Huot, his great-grandson, sold; to George S. Hellman, New York, sold [through Kende Galleries, New York, April 10, 1952, lot 75]. Ira Spanierman. Martin Reymert and Gerald Norman, New York and London, sold; to Fogg Art Musuem, 1968

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