Franz Edmund Weirotter and Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Garden at the Villa d’Este
1761-1771
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 55 x 152 mm. (2 3/16 x 6 in.)
Plate: 47 x 150 mm. (1 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Image: 47 x 150 mm. (1 7/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Print and Drawing Acquisition Fund
Object Number
2011.119
For many eighteenth-century painters, the practice of making etchings enabled them to revisit their work in other media. Jean-Honoré Fragonard's silvery "The Little Park" was informed by two larger-scale, red chalk drawings that he made in 1760 of the gards of the Villa d'Este near Tivoli where he was taken with the estate's lush vegatation, overgrown from years of neglect, and the architectural and scuptural remains of the lavish villa. Subsequently Franze Edmund Weirotter took up the same scene, working from Fragonard's drawings, etching, or both. He made "The Little Park" his own through his modification of the composition and distinctive mark making.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2011; Helmut H. Rumbler, Germany
BMA, Jacobs wing rotation, 26 November 2012 - 24 April 2013.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: Recto: in plate, at lower center: "F. E. Weirotter fecit."; on mount, at lower center, in graphite: "413" Verso: none
Markings: None
