File:Jean Honoré Fragonard - The Letter or The Spanish Conversation - Google Art Project.jpg
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[edit]The Letter or The Spanish Conversation
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| Artist |
Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806) – creator (French) Details on Google Art Project |
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| Title |
The Letter or The Spanish Conversation |
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| Object type | Drawing and Watercolor | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | circa 1778 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium |
Brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with graphite, on ivory laid paper English: Brush and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with graphite, on ivory laid paper |
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| Dimensions | height: 399 mm (15.70 in); width: 290 mm (11.41 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
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| Accession number |
1945.32 |
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| Object history |
English: Sold, May 31, 1790, Anonymous sale, lot 323. Jean-Baptiste Pierre Lebrun (1748-1813), Paris; sold, April 11, 1791, lot 347. Saint; sold, May 4, 1846, lot 18 [according to New York 1988]. Duc Robert Montesquiou-Fezensac [Paris 1921]. David David-Weill (1871-1952), Paris, by 1913 [New York 1988]; consigned to Wildenstein and Company, New York, 1938 [New York 1938; Lynn H. Nicholas, The Rape of Europa (New York, 1994), p. 93]. Sold by Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1945. |
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| Exhibition history |
English: Paris, Pavillon de Marsan, "Fragonard," 1921, cat. 126. London, Royal Academy of Arts, "French Art, 1200-1900," 1932, p. 395, cat. 808. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "French Eighteenth Century Pastels, Watercolors, and Drawings from the David-Weill Collection," 1938, cat. 70. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Old and New," 1946, p. 13-14, cat. 18 (ill. frontispiece), cat. by Carl O. Schniewind. Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, "Seventy Master Drawings," 1948-1949, cat. 52. The Art Institute of Chicago, "French Drawings: Masterpieces from Seven Centuries," 1955-1956, cat. 81. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "French Drawings in American Collections: Clouet to Matisse," 1958-1959, cat. 49; traveled to Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie and Rotterdam, Museum Boymans. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 60, pl. XX. The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Quarter Century of Collecting: Drawings Given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944-1970 by Margaret Day Blake," April 28-June 7, 1970, n.p., cat. 22 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, "Selected Works of 18th Century French Art in the Collections of The Art Institute of Chicago," January 24-March 28, 1976, pp. 66-67, cat. 60 (ill.). Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 18 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 44-45, cat. 17 (ill.). Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Drawings by Fragonard in North American Collections," November 19, 1978-January 21, 1978, p. 114, cat. 43 (ill.), cat. by Eunice Williams; traveled to Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, February 16-April 1, 1979; and New York, the Frick Collection, April 20-June 3, 1979. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art "Fragonard," February 2-May 8, 1988, p. 522, cat. 266 (ill.), cat. by Pierre Rosenberg. |
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| Notes | More info at museum site | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | VQECVZgYdYa9Ug at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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