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
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
"Fragonard", Wildenstein, NY, 1914, No. 20
"Fragonard", Wildenstein, NY, 1926, No. 7
World's Fair, "European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300 - 1800", New York, 1939, No. 119
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Age of Elegance: The Rococo and Its Effects", April 25 - June 14, 1959; Cat. no. 10
Royal Academy of Arts, "France and the 18th Century", London, January 5 - March 3, 1967, Cat. #225, Pl. SCVIII, fig. 285
Baltimore Museum of Art, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early & Late Works by European & American Artists", October 22 - December 8, 1968, Cat. #23, repr. p. 42
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, "Fragonard Exhibition", March 18 - May 11, 1980. Circulated to the Kyoto Municipal Museum, May 20 - June 29, 1980
"Fragonard", Wildenstein, NY, 1926, No. 7
World's Fair, "European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300 - 1800", New York, 1939, No. 119
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Age of Elegance: The Rococo and Its Effects", April 25 - June 14, 1959; Cat. no. 10
Royal Academy of Arts, "France and the 18th Century", London, January 5 - March 3, 1967, Cat. #225, Pl. SCVIII, fig. 285
Baltimore Museum of Art, "From El Greco to Pollock: Early & Late Works by European & American Artists", October 22 - December 8, 1968, Cat. #23, repr. p. 42
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, "Fragonard Exhibition", March 18 - May 11, 1980. Circulated to the Kyoto Municipal Museum, May 20 - June 29, 1980
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
On View at the BMA
