Bull of the Roman Campagna

Provenance

Calonne Angelot; sold, May 11, 1789, lot 271 [New York 1988]. Hippolyte Walferdin (died 1880), Paris; sold, Paris, April 12-16, 1880, lot 195, to Mme. la Baronne de Ruble, Paris [Ananoff 1961]; Mme. la Baronne de Ruble, to at least 1889 [New York 1988]. Alfred Beurdeley (died 1919) [Lugt 421]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 13-15, 1905, lot 78, to Count von Moltke [Ananoff 1961]. William Kissam Vanderbilt (died 1920) [New York 1988]. Princess Charles Murat (née Vanderbilt), New York; sold, Sotheby's, London, November 29, 1961, lot 29, to the Art Institute.

Bull of the Roman Campagna

Jean Honoré Fragonard

1773/74

Accession Number

88498

Medium

Brush and brown and gray wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper, laid down on cream laid card

Dimensions

36.3 × 49.2 cm (14 5/16 × 19 3/8 in.)

Classification

ink or chalk wash

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Helen Regenstein Collection