Jean-Honoré Fragonard
The Tax Collectors
1778
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (trimmed within platemark): 238 x 179 mm. (9 3/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Blanche Adler Memorial Fund, and purchased as the gift of Jan Paul and Ellen von Seggern Richter
Object Number
2012.239
Over the course of 1778, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and his young student (and sister-in-law) Marguerite Gérard created a group of nine etchings. Fragonard probably made The Tax Collectors first as a teaching model for Gérard. His extraordinary range of mark making demonstrates the visual effects produced by lines of different sizes, shapes, and patterns, not to mention the possibilities offered by leaving passages of white paper in reserve.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase; Paul Prouté, Paris; François Heugel
BMA, Jacobs rotation, 22 December 2015 - 4 October 2016
Inscribed: lower center in plate: "Fragonard 1778"
Markings: CM: François Heugel (Lugt 3373)
