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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Rest on the Flight

1744-1754

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Jean-Honoré Fragonard

Rest on the Flight

1744-1754

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, 26 x 22 1/2 in. (66 x 57.2 cm.)
Credit Line The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection
Object Number 1938.182

Publication References

A Boutillier du Retail, "Un Fragonard a Troyes", Annuaire de L'Aube, 1912, Part II, pp. 19, 23
D. Huntley Gordon, "The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection", Art News, May 14, 1938, p. 8
"Fragonard," by Pierre Rosenberg - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, Pgs. 467-470.
Jacobs, Dr. Henry Barton. The Collection of Mary Frick Jacobs. Baltimore, MD: Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs, 1938, plate 20, unpaged.
D.C. Fox, "The Holy Family", BMA News, February 1943, p.6.
Georges Wildenstein, "Fragonard", London" Phaidon Press: London, 1960, no. 23, fig. 14
Louis Reau, "Fragonard", Bruxelles: Elsevier, 1956, p. 142, p. 227, ill. p. 44, pl. no. 20
Rosenthal, Gertrude, ed. From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968, pp. 42, ill.
Daniel Wildenstein & Gabriele Mandel, "L'Opera completa di Fragonard", Milan: Rizzoli, 1972, no. 24
"The Queen of Heaven: A Selection of paintings of the Virgin Mary from the twelfth to eighteenth centuries", 1987, Macdonald & Co. (Publishers), London
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest; Mary Frick Jacobs by purchase, 1926; from Wildenstein, Paris; Wildenstein and Co., New York, by purchase 1922; Mrs. Benjamin Thaw Collection; Langlois Collection; Poilleux Collection; La Rochefoucauld -Liancourt Collection; possibly Le Prince sale of November 28, 1781, Lot 125
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Artist

Jean-Honoré Fragonard

French, 1732-1806
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