Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non, Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Vue prise dans les jardins de la Ville d’Este à Tivoli
1762-1764
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Jean Claude Richard de Saint-Non, Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Vue prise dans les jardins de la Ville d’Este à Tivoli
1762-1764
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet (cut within platemark): 110 x 156 mm. (4 5/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Object Number
2003.5
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 the abbé de Saint-Non - a collector and amateur etcher who had traveled to Italy with Fragonard - 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.
Artists and Amateurs: Etching in Eighteenth-Century France
Lajer-Burchart, Ewa. The Painter's Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.
Le Blanc, Charles, Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, Paris: E. Bouillon, 1854-1888, no. 15. Rosenberg, Pierre, Fragonard, exhib. cat., New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988, p. 153, ill. p. 154 fig. 1. Carlson, Victor and John Ittmann, Regency to Empire: French Printmaking 1715-1814, exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985, p. 150 (citation for existence of two states). Wildenstein, Georges, Fragonard aquafortiste, Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1956, cat. no. 2, copy 1, p. 9-10 (with extensive bibliography and sales). Crown, Patricia, 'An Eighteenth-Century Collaboration: Fragonard, Robert and the Abbé Saint-Non,' Muse (Annual of the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia) vol. 26, 1992, p. 53-61.
Rosenberg, Pierre, and Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Saint-Non, Fragonard, Panopicon Italiano: Un diario di viaggio ritrovato, 1759-1761, Rome, 1986.
Rosenberg, Pierre, and Barbara Brejon de Lavergnée, Saint-Non, Fragonard, Panopicon Italiano: Un diario di viaggio ritrovato, 1759-1761, Rome, 1986.
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Inscribed: None
Markings: None