Arbor with Two Children (Le Nid d'Armour)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, May 1884, lot 63, to Clément [according to Ananoff 1963]. Alfred Beurdeley, to March 1905 [Lugt 421]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 13-15 March 1905, Beurdeley sale, lot 72, to Droz for 2.050 fr. [according to Ananoff 1963]. Camille Groult (died 1908) [according to Ananoff]. Private collector [according to Ananoff 1963]. Sold, Palais Galliera, Paris, 9-11 April 1962, Anonymous sale, lot 33, to William Schab and Regina Slatkin, New York, for 18.000 fr. [according to Ananoff 1963]; sold to the Art Institute, 1962.

Arbor with Two Children (Le Nid d'Armour)

Jean Honoré Fragonard

1760

Accession Number

14766

Medium

Red chalk on cream laid paper

Dimensions

36 × 48.5 cm (14 3/16 × 19 1/8 in.)

Classification

ink or chalk wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Helen Regenstein Collection