Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Little Park
1757-1767
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 102 x 139 mm. (4 x 5 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Special Fund for the Purchase of Art
Object Number
1963.269
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.
BMA, Jacobs wing rotation, 26 November 2012 - 24 April 2013.
