Attributed to Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD (1732-1806)
The... Lot 49
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Attributed to Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD (1732-1806)
The toilet of Venus
Oil on canvas, lined
60 x 40 cm
Provenance :
Former collection Léon Michel-Lévy
His sale in Paris, June 17-18, 1925, n° 140 (as Fragonard)
"Study for a larger painting that was part of the Barroilhet collection, sale in Paris on March 15-16, 1872, n° 9 of the catalog (72 x 49 cm).
This study seems to us to have been taken over later by another hand.
Exhibition:
1907, Paris, Chardin - Fragonard. n° 105, Illustrated catalog of MM. A.Dayot and L.Vaillat, 1907, p. 105 (as Fragonard)
Bibliography :
Louis Réau, Fragonard, 1958, p. 147, quoted as "Study for the painting in the Barroilhel sale"
Georges Wildenstein, Les peintures de J.H. Fragonard, London, 1960, p. 270, n° 314, "...a study(?) of this painting (n° 314) was sold at the L. Michel-Levy sale, June 17-18, 1925, n° 140, bought by the Countess de Gontaut-Biron ".
Jacques Wilhelm, 1960, p. 93
G.Mandel, Fragonard, L'opera completa, 1972, n° 335A (as Fragonard) " Un dipinto di tema analogo (au 335) forse anche bozzetto preparatorio "
Jean Pierre Cuzin, J.H. Fragonard. Life and works, complete catalog of paintings. Paris, 1987. No. 161, repr. (as Fragonard)
Pierre Rosenberg, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Fragonard, Paris, 1989, n° 258, repr. (as Fragonard)
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