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.