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Name:
The Letter
Artist:
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (French, b.1732, d.1806), painter
Date:
Circa 1776
Place:
France
Medium:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
15 x 11 5/8 in. (38.1 x 29.5 cm)
Classification:
Painting
Department:
European Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings
Credit Line:
Gift of Mary Hanna
Provenance:
Collection Walferdin, Paris, ?-1880, sold in Walferdin collection sale, Hôtel Drouot, April 12-16, 1880, no. 2, to; Paul de Saint-Victor, Paris, 1880-January 23-24, 1882. Anonymous collection, sold in Paris auction, 1885 [1]. M. A. Chevrillon, Paris. (Wildenstein & Co., Paris and New York, by at least December 1927-before August 1929 [2]). Mr. and Mrs. Edwin S. Bayer, New York, by at least August 1929-? [3]. (James P. Labey [d. 1946], New York, until 1937, sold to); Mary Hanna, Cincinnati, 1937-1946, given to; Cincinnati Art Museum, 1946-present. Notes: [1] Roger Portalis, Honoré Fragonard sa vie et son oeuvre, Paris: J. Rothschild, 1889, p. 280. [2] Published as being in the Wildenstein collection in Burlington Magazine, December 1927, plate 11. [3] Published as from the collection of Mrs. Edwin S. Bayeron in International Studio, vol. 93, no. 387, August 1929, cover.
Accession No:
1946.101

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