Margaruerite Gerard Reading to Her Mother and Rosalie Fragonard

Provenance

Count de Choiseul-Gouffier (died 1817) [according to Ananoff 1970]. Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince of Bénévent (died 1838) [according to Ananoff 1970]. Georges Plach (died 1885), Vienna, before 1865 [Lugt 1188]. A. de Gourmont [according to Joachim 1977]. Sold by Stephen Higgons, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1965.

Margaruerite Gerard Reading to Her Mother and Rosalie Fragonard

Jean Honoré Fragonard

c. 1785

Accession Number

23642

Medium

Brush and brown wash, and graphite, on tan laid paper

Dimensions

33.1 × 40.4 cm (13 1/16 × 15 15/16 in.)

Classification

ink or chalk wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation